The three Japan Times film critics (Mark Schilling, Giovanni Fazio and me, Kaori Shoji) are taking a much-needed and entirely fictional break in a log cabin in a remote location, with no entertainment except for five DVDs. (Personally, I would rather have camped out at a 24-hour cocktail lounge in my pajamas, but never mind.) But how to choose just five movies for the holidays? Narrowly avoiding bloodshed, we thrashed out a list — and this is how we got there.
M.S.: "I would have to say that this time of year, my thoughts turn to 'The Wizard of Oz.' I watched it every year when I was a kid, and then I cried. I know every single scene, I can repeat lines verbatim."
G.F.: "Which scene made you cry?"