Classic Japanese Movies

I just watched a couple classic Japanese movies (Godzilla 1954, Ugetsu Monogatari, and Gate of Hell ) and  was reminded of how awesome classic movies are. I just wanted some recommendations on some more classic movies 1930s-1980s that you folks on mdl really enjoyed that I haven't seen yet.

Hey, I've just started getting into old Japanese movies only last year! Some that I recommend:

• High and Low (Kurosawa Akira, 1963)--crime drama
• Throne of Blood (Kurosawa Akira, 1957)--Macbeth Japanese style
• Seppuku (Kobayashi Masaki, 1962)--a man who tries to do ritual suicide explains how he came about to that decision
• The Thick-Walled Room (Kobayashi Masaki, 1956)--a story about a bunch of class B and C war criminals
• Tokyo Story (Ozu Yasujiro, 1953)--an elderly couple come to Tokyo, only to be largely ignored by their grown-up children
• Akasen Chitai (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1956)--a story about a group of sex workers in a red-light district
• Gion-bayashi (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953)--an accomplished geisha tries to help out her young protege
• A Legend of a Duel to the Death (Kinoshita Keisuke, 1963)--sort of like a Western
• Twenty-four Eyes (Kinoshita Keisuke, 1954)--a new teacher tries to educate her twelve pupils, but poverty and war get in the way
• Yearning (Naruse Mikio, 1964)--a young widow finds herself on a crossroad when a supermarket threatens the family business
• Death by Hanging (Oshima Nagisa, 1968)--is state-sanctioned killing can be considered as "murder"?
• Boy (Oshima Nagisa, 1969)--a young boy of a criminal family tries to survive
• Giants and Toys (Masumura Yasuzo, 1958)--war of advertising, basically
• Aozora Musume (Masumura Yasuzo, 1957)--basically like Cinderella, but more grounded
• The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa Kon, 1956)--a humanist war movie, lots of singing but not much fighting as far as I remember
• An Actor's Revenge (Ichikawa Kon, 1962)--a female impersonator tries to avenge his parents' death
• Vengeance is Mine (Imamura Shohei, 1979)--a story of serial killer
• Pale Flower (Shinoda Masahiro, 1964)--a newly released convict becomes fascinated with a posh young woman he meets in a gambling den
• The Sword of Doom (Okamoto Kihachi, 1966)--a guy kills a large number of innocent people; is he crazy or just evil?
• Eros + Massacre (Yoshida Yoshishige, 1969)--a loose "biography" about two anarchists living in early 20th century Japan

You can watch Kokoro (1954) live action based on the novel by natsume soseki.

Here are some of my favorites classic Japanese movies:

Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935, Sadao Yamanaka)

Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)

Ugetsu (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi)

Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)

Throne of Blood (1957, Akira Kurosawa)

The Human Condition trilogy (1959-1961,  Masaki Kobayashi)

Late Autumn (1960, Yasujiro Ozu)

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960, Mikio Naruse)

Harakiri (1962, Masaki Kobayashi)

High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)

Woman in the Dunes (1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara)

The Face of Another (1966, Hiroshi Teshigahara)

Death by Hanging (1968, Nagisa Oshima)

Kuroneko (1968, Kaneto Shindo)

Shura (1971, Toshio Matsumoto)

Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974, Shuji Terayama)

House (1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi)

Tampopo (1985, Juzo Itami)

 Saburo:

How'd your professor analyze the oral egg-swapping segment in TAMPOPO??!

We didn't get to watch the entire thing in class but he suggested we watch the rest at home and we had a quick discussion about it. Don't remember what we talked about (this was last year) but I remember it being weird/ funny.