List of Japanese films of the 1920s

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An incomplete list of films produced in Japan ordered by year in the 1920s. For an A-Z of films see Category:Japanese films. Also see cinema of Japan.

1920–1921[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1920

Norimasa Kaeriyama
Minoru Murata		 Released 28 July.[1] Studio: Eiga Geijutsu Kyōkai.
Thomas Kurihara
Released 1 October.[2] Studio: Kokusai Katsuei. One 22-minute and one 34-minute print extant.[3][4]
Released 13 November.[5] Studio: Teikoku Kinema.
Thomas Kurihara
Tomu Uchida		 Released 19 November.[6] Studio: Taishō Katsuei.

Studio: Katsudō Shashin Shiryō Kenkyūkai. Print in National Film Center.[7]
1921
Shōzō Makino Matsunosuke Onoe Released 1 February.[8] Studio: Nikkatsu. 21-minute print in

National Film Center.[9]

Kisaburo Kurihara Released 30 March.[10] Studio: Taishō Katsuei.
Minoru Murata Kaoru Osanai
Zeya Togo		 Released 8 April.[11] Studio: Shochiku. Print in National Film Center.[12]
Masao Inoue
 Released 24 April.[13] Studio: Kokusai Katsuei. Print in National Film Center.[14]
Henry Kotani Sumiko Kurishima Released 29 April.[15] Studio: Shochiku.
Kiyohiko Ushihara
Released 1 July.[16] Studio: Shochiku.
Minoru Murata
Released 16 July.[17] Studio: Shochiku.

Sumiko Kurishima		 Released 8 September.[18] Studio: Shochiku.

Matsunosuke Onoe
 Released 30 September.[19] Studio: Nikkatsu. Print in National Film Center.[20]

1922[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1922

Romance Released 1 February.[21] Studio: Shochiku
Yoshinobu Ikeda
Sumiko Kurishima		 Released 9 March.[22] Studio: Shochiku. 19-minute print in National Film Center.[23]
Released 25 April.[24] Studio: Nikkatsu. Print extant.[25]
Matsunosuke Onoe Released 5 May.[26] Studio: Nikkatsu. Print extant.[25]
Yasujirō Shimazu Yuriko Hanabusa
 Released 21 June.[27] Studio: Shochiku
Yuriko Hanabusa
 Released 23 July.[28] Studio: Shochiku
Yasujirō Shimazu
Released 10 August.[29] Studio: Shochiku
Yasujirō Shimazu
Released 20 September.[30] Studio: Shochiku
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Tomu Uchida[31] [debut]		 Teinosuke Kinugasa Released 28 November[32] (some sources say 29 October[33]). Studio: Makino Kyōiku Eiga
Eizo Tanaka Released 30 December.[34] Studio: Nikkatsu.

1923[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1923
Sendō kouta Yoshinobu Ikeda
Sumiko Kurishima		 Released 8 January.[35] Studio: Shochiku.

Yuriko Hanabusa		 Released 1 February.[36] Studio: Shochiku. Print in National Film Center.[37]
Kenji Mizoguchi Released 4 February.[38] Studio: Nikkatsu.
Kokyo Kenji Mizoguchi Released 25 February.[39] Studio: Nikkatsu.
Kiyohiko Ushihara Masao Inoue
Sumiko Kurishima		 Drama Released 1 April.[40] Studio: Shochiku. 9-minute print in National Film Center.[41]
Kenji Mizoguchi Released 20 April.[42] Studio: Nikkatsu.
Yoshinobu Ikeda Masao Inoue
 Drama Released 30 April.[43] Studio: Shochiku.
Kenji Mizoguchi Released 13 May.[44] Studio: Nikkatsu.
Yasujirō Shimazu Released 15 June.[45] Studio: Shochiku
Kenji Mizoguchi Released 29 July.[46] Studio: Nikkatsu.
Yoshinobu Ikeda
Sumiko Kurishima
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi
Yasujirō Shimazu
Thomas Kurihara Henry Kotani
Kenji Mizoguchi Released 30 September.[47] Studio: Nikkatsu.
Kenji Mizoguchi
Released 9 November.[48] Studio: Nikkatsu.
Kosuzume Tōge
Tsumasaburo Bando		 Released 30 November.[49] Studio: Makino Film Productions. Print in National Film Center.[50]
Studio: . Print in National Film Center.[51]
Studio: Katsudō Shashin Shiryō Kenkyūkai. Print in National Film Center.[52]

1924[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1924
[citation needed]
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi
Henry Kotani
Minoru Murata

Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi
Teinosuke Kinugasa Misao Seki
Kenji Mizoguchi
Norimasa Kaeriyama

Released 31 August.[53] Studio: . Other sources give title as Chichi yo izuko e and the year 1923.[54]


Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi
Hiroshi Inagaki

Misao Seki

Kenji Mizoguchi
Yoshinobu Ikeda Sumiko Kurishima
Kenji Mizoguchi
Denmei Suzuki
Hiroshi Shimizu Kinuyo Tanaka
Kunisada Chūji Shōzō Makino Released 31 December.[55] Studio: . 33 min. print in National Film Center.[56]
Yoshinobu Ikeda
Chōko Iida		 Studio: Shochiku. Print in National Film Center.[57] Also titled Koutashū dainihen sutoton.[58]

1925[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1925
Kenji Mizoguchi
Tomu Uchida
Buntaro Futagawa Tsumasaburo Bando
Shinpei Takagi
Buntaro Futagawa Tsumasaburo Bando
Shinpei Takagi
Minoru Murata
Yasujirō Shimazu
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kiyohiko Ushihara
Yasujirō Shimazu		 Masao Inoue
Yuriko Hanabusa
Kiyohiko Ushihara
Yasujirō Shimazu		 Masao Inoue
Kiyohiko Ushihara
Yasujirō Shimazu		 Masao Inoue
Sumiko Kurishima
Kenji Mizoguchi
Eiji Nakano
Eiji Nakano
Yoshiko Okada
Eiji Nakano
Eiichi Matsumoto


Kenji Mizoguchi
Kenji Mizoguchi Yoshiko Okada
Eiichi Matsumoto
Kenji Mizoguchi
 Eiji Nakano

Yoshinobu Ikeda Sumiko Kurishima
Shōzō Makino Tsumasaburo Bando
Yasujirō Shimazu Denmei Suzuki
Yuriko Hanabusa
Eiichi Matsumoto
Frank Tokunaga
Matsunosuke Onoe

Orochi Buntaro Futagawa Tsumasaburo Bando
Kenji Mizoguchi
Yoshiko Okada
Kenji Mizoguchi Eiji Nakano
Yoshiko Okada
Kenji Mizoguchi

Thomas Kurihara
Kenji Mizoguchi

1926–1929[]

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1926
Kurutta Ippeji
(A Page of Madness)		 Kinugasa Teinosuke Masao Inoue 24 September
Storm of Passion Teruko Asahi, Momoko Ashiya
1927
Blood of Penitence Yasujirō Ozu [citation needed]
1928
Edo Sangokushi (The Three Patriots of Edo) Seika Shiba
Jujiro (Crossways) Kinugasa Teinosuke 11 May
Kurama Tengu: Kyōfu Jidai Teppei Yamaguchi Kanjuro Arashi, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Takasaburo Nakamura, Tokusho Arashi
Kurama Tengu Teppei Yamaguchi Kanjuro Arashi, Takesaburo Nakamura, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Tokusho Arashi
Wakodo no yume Yasujirō Ozu Tatsuo Saitō, Comedy [59]
1929
Daigaku wa detakeredo Yasujirō Ozu , Kinuyo Tanaka Comedy [60]
Days of Youth Yasujirō Ozu , Tatsuo Saitō Comedy
Monkey Sun

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