RYANBURG’S FAVORITE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS

yojimbo jean seven fear rash
tampopo taxing woman 400 manon diva ran ugetsu

FILMLANGUAGEREMARKS
YojimboJapaneseAkira Kurasawa
remade into A Fist Full of Dollars and Last Man Standing
The Seven SamuraiJapaneseAkira Kurasawa
remade into The Magnificent Seven
Das BootGermanBest Foreign Language War Movie
Jean De Florette FrenchClaude Langman
Rashomon JapaneseAkira Kurasawa
Tampopo JapaneseJuzo Itami
A Taxing Woman JapaneseJuzo Itami
SanjuroJapaneseAkira Kurasawa
The Wages of FearFrenchRemade into Sorceror
Throne of Blood JapaneseAkira Kurasawa's version of MacBeth
The Return of a Taxing Woman JapaneseJuzo Itami
The 47 Ronin JapaneseJapanese war propoganda
Germinal FrenchClaude Langman
The 400 Blows FrenchFrancois Truffaut
Diva French
LeonFrench
RanJapaneseAkira Kurasawa's version of King Lear
Minbo (The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion) JapaneseJuzo Itami
Manon of the SpringFrenchClaude Langman
sequel to Jean De Florette
Alexander Nevsky RussianStalinist anti-German propoganda
Coup de Torchon French
Nosferatu (1981)GermanRemake of original silent German version of Dracula
Kagemusha JapaneseAkira Kurasawa
The Hidden FortressJapaneseAkira Kurasawa
characters became the basis for R2D2 and C3PO
Wings of DesireGermanRemade into City of Angels
Aguirre: The Wrath of God German
Akira JapaneseAnime
Ugetsu Japanese
Metropolis German - Silent
M GermanFritz Lang
The Funeral
(Ososhiki)		JapaneseJuzo Itami
Au Revoir les EnfantsFrench
Vagabond French
Man Bites DogFrench
Ghost in the Shell JapaneseAnime

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