Filmed 2023-06-17
Hideo Kojima
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The pioneering video game designer throws a spotlight on treasures of 1950s and ’60s Japanese cinema, including Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight and Nobuo Nakagawa’s Jigoku.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 9 choices reach 13 films.
Least-picked choice here: Jigoku, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  High and Low | Akira Kurosawa | 1963 |
| 2 |  Late Spring | Yasujiro Ozu | 1949 |
| 3 |  Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 |
| 5 |  Kwaidan | Masaki Kobayashi | 1965 |
| 6 |  Harakiri | Masaki Kobayashi | 1962 |
| 7 |  Jigoku | Nobuo Nakagawa | 1960 |
| 8 |  Onibaba | Kaneto Shindo | 1964 |
| 9 |  Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1964 |
Japan accounts for eight of their eight single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 13 films.
Closest taste
Jaccard overlap against every other visit, counted on what came off the shelf rather than on films, so a shared box set counts once rather than as the films inside it.
403 visits compared · 31 filmed-together pairs excluded
Their decades
Their eight single films with a release year on record, against where every guest's single-film picks land. Box sets are left out of both sides, so the two bars measure the same thing.