A selection of personal favourites; in ascending order of release year.

Films

• Red Beard (1965) — Akira Kurosawa
• Maborosi (1995) — Hirokazu Koreeda
• Matilda (1996) — Danny DeVito
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) — Michel Gondry
• Nobody Knows (2004) — Hirokazu Koreeda
• Saving Face (2004) — Alice Wu
• Pride & Prejudice (2005) — Joe Wright
• One Million Yen Girl (2008) — Yuki Tanada
• Still Walking (2008) — Hirokazu Koreeda
• Interstellar (2014) — Christopher Nolan
• Our Little Sister (2015) — Hirokazu Koreeda
• Carol (2015) — Todd Haynes
• Moonlight (2016) — Barry Jenkins
• La La Land (2016) — Damien Chazelle
• Hidden Figures (2016) — Theodore Melfi
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) — Céline Sciamma
• Moonlit Winter (2019) — Lim Dae-hyung
• The Farewell (2019) — Lulu Wang
• Aloners (2021) — Hong Sung-eun
• Petite Maman (2021) — Céline Sciamma
• One Day, You Will Reach the Sea (2022) — Ryutaro Nakagawa
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) — Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan
• Call Me Chihiro (2023) — Rikiya Imaizumi
• Past Lives (2023) — Celine Song
• The Boy and the Heron (2023) — Hayao Miyazaki
• His Three Daughters (2023) — Azazel Jacobs
• Perfect Days (2023) — Wim Wenders
• Dune: Part Two (2024) — Denis Villeneuve

Animation

• Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) — Hayao Miyazaki
• Mulan (1998) — Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
• Ratatouille (2007) — Brad Bird
• Soul (2020) — Pete Docter

TV

• The Queen's Gambit (2020)
• Shōgun (2024)

Animation

• Arcane (2021–2024)
• Blue Eye Samurai (2023)
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (2023–)