Classic Japanese Cinema Discussion Thread

I'd like to see the 'Stray Cat Rock' series from the 1970s but it's so expensive to buy the box-set. I bought the 'Hanzo The Razor' collection and didn't much care for any of the films, so it's always a gamble, though that collection I got very cheap. The dvd distributor Arrow Academy are releasing 'Horrors Of Malformed Men' (1969) soon which is exciting. Also, the 'Buddhist' trilogy by Akio Jissoji which I'd never heard of before. They're keen to release films from Yasuharu Hasebe, another top director whose work I'm not at all familiar with. Perhaps they might release something from Koji Wakamatsu who I've also seen nothing from.

The history of Japanese cinema is so incredibly rich and diverse, where do you start. But anyway, I said I'd knock up a list off the top of my head, and there's a quite a few recent titles here because I like J-horror. I'm surprised to find I have very little from the 1980s and 1990s though, when Japanese genre films were often very clinical and slick in presentation.