Best Japanese movies per year 1925-2019

Based entirely on https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/best-japanese-film-every-year-from-1925-now.
A list made by BFI (a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK's lead organisation for film and the moving image.)

"It’s a foolish endeavour to try to determine the best film, year by year, of any filmmaking nation, let alone one with so extraordinary a cinematic history as Japan.

We’re foolish, too, if we think we can have a true grasp on a nation’s cinema from our crow’s nest on the other side of the globe, where so much of what we’ve been able to see has been funnelled through gatekeepers. Festival programmers, enterprising DVD labels and, yes, cultural institutions have all played their part in importing and making available for western viewers a subjective selection of the best or most marketable Japanese cinema at any one point in its development."

Why create sth new if there already are lists out there ^-^
*the years missing are either not in the database or were designated with anime.