page_title: List of films considered the best
section_title: Japan
hierarchical_section_title: List of films considered the best / National polls / Japan
caption_attribution_description: English: From left to right:So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, and Chieko Higashiyama in 1953 Japanese film Tokyo Story 日本語: 『東京物語』の山村聰、三宅邦子、笠智衆、原節子、杉村春子、東山千栄子（左から）
context_page_description: This is a list of films considered "the best ever" in national and international surveys of critics and the public.
  Some surveys focus on all films, while others focus on a particular genre or country. Voting systems differ, and some surveys suffer from biases such as self-selection or skewed demographics, while others may be susceptible to forms of interference such as vote stacking.
context_section_description: Tokyo Story (東京物語; 1953) topped the Sight & Sound directors' poll with 48 votes and was number 3 in the critics' poll with 107 votes in 2012. It was also voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 2009 poll of 114 critics and film professionals organized by Japanese film magazine Kinema Junpo. It was voted the best Asian film of all time in a 2015 poll of 73 film critics, festival executives, programmers, and directors from around the world, organized by the Busan International Film Festival.
  Seven Samurai (1954) was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1989 poll of 372 celebrities for a book published by Bungeishunjū. It was voted the best Japanese film of all time in a 1990 poll of about a million people organized by NHK. It was also number 3 with 15 votes, the highest ranked Japanese film, in the 1982 Sight & Sound critics' poll. It was also ranked joint tenth on the Sight & Sound directors' poll in 1992, and joint ninth in 2002. It was the greatest foreign-language film in BBC Culture's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries.
  Rashomon (1950) was ranked joint tenth in the 1992 Sight & Sound directors' poll, and joint ninth in 2002.
caption: Tokyo Story (1953) topped several international polls, including the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll.
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