List of Japanese films of the 1930s

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An incomplete list of films produced in Japan ordered by year in the 1930s. For an alphabetical list of films see Category:Japanese films. Also see cinema of Japan.

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1930
Aiyoku no ki Heinosuke Gosho Kinuyo Tanaka,
Kiyohiko Ushihara Denmei Suzuki, Kinuyo Tanaka War drama [1]
Kenji Mizoguchi Yoshie Fujiwara
Shizue Natsukawa		 Japan's second feature-length talkie (after (The Captain's Daughter))
Love Is Strength Mikio Naruse Hiroko Kawasaki, Teruo Mori Drama
That Night's Wife Yasujirō Ozu Tokihiko Okada, Comedy [2]
Tojin Okichi Kenji Mizoguchi Kaichi Yamamoto, Koji Shima Drama
Yasujirō Ozu , Drama [3]
What Made Her Do It? Shigeyoshi Suzuki ,
1931
Yasujirō Ozu Tokihiko Okada, Romantic comedy [4]
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine Heinosuke Gosho Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka Japan's first commercially successful talkie
Tokyo Chorus Yasujirō Ozu Tokihiko Okada Drama
1932
Chūshingura Teinosuke Kinugasa Tomio Aoki, ,
Yasujirō Shimazu Ureo Egawa, Shin'ichi Himori, Chōko Iida
I Was Born, But... Yasujirō Ozu Tatsuo Saitō Comedy drama
Mansaku Itami , Junzaburō Ban, Chiezō Kataoka
Kenji Mizoguchi Takako Irie, Eiji Nakano,
Mikio Naruse Yoshiko Okada, , Drama
Yasujirō Ozu , Tatsuo Saitō,
Until the Day We Meet Again Yasujirō Ozu Yoshiko Okada, ,
, ,
Yasujirō Ozu Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saitō Drama [5]
1933
Apart from You Mikio Naruse Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Drama
Dragnet Girl Yasujirō Ozu Kinuyo Tanaka Crime
Sadao Yamanaka Lost film [6]
Mikio Naruse Sumiko Kurishima, Drama [7]
Passing Fancy Yasujirō Ozu Takeshi Sakamoto
Wasei Kingu Kongu Tatsuo Saitō
The Water Magician Kenji Mizoguchi Takako Irie, Tokihiko Okada, Ichirō Sugai
1934
Aizō Tōge Kenji Mizoguchi Isuzu Yamada, Denmei Suzuki, Komako Hara
A Mother Should be Loved Yasujirō Ozu , Drama
Yasujirō Shimazu Drama [8]
A Story of Floating Weeds Yasujirō Ozu Takeshi Sakamoto Drama
Street Without End Mikio Naruse , Drama [9]
1935
Mikio Naruse , Drama [10]
An Inn in Tokyo Yasujirō Ozu Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada
Mikio Naruse
The Million Ryo Pot Sadao Yamanaka Denjiro Okochi Comedy
Orizuru Osen Kenji Mizoguchi Isuzu Yamada
Sadao Yamanaka
Wife! Be Like a Rose! Mikio Naruse , First Japanese film to get a foreign release [11]
1936
The Only Son Yasujirō Ozu Chishū Ryū Drama
Osaka Elegy Kenji Mizoguchi Isuzu Yamada
 Drama
Sisters of the Gion Kenji Mizoguchi Isuzu Yamada Drama
1937
Mikio Naruse [12]
The Daughter of the Samurai Mansaku Itami
Arnold Fanck		 Setsuko Hara
Sesshu Hayakawa		 Drama Japanese/German production
Humanity and Paper Balloons Sadao Yamanaka Drama
Kagirinaki Zenshin Tomu Uchida Isamu Kosugi
What Did the Lady Forget? Yasujirō Ozu Tatsuo Saitō, Sumiko Kurishima Comedy drama
1938
Kenji Mizoguchi , Masao Shimizu, N/A [13]
Five Scouts Tomotaka Tasaka
King Kong Appears in Edo Eizaburo Matsumoto (Possibly) Japan's first kaiju film.
1939
Tadashi Imai Drama [14]
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Kenji Mizoguchi Romantic drama
Tsuchi Tomu Uchida

References[]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ "The Army Advances (1930)".
  2. ^ "That Night's Wife".
  3. ^ http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/walk-cheerfully-1930
  4. ^ "Review of the film the Lady and the Beard (1931)". 22 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Review of the film Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)". 22 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Uncovering lost worlds of Japanese film". 14 September 2003.
  7. ^ "Yogoto No Yume (1933)".
  8. ^ "Tonari no Yae-chan (Our Neighbour, Miss Yae). 1934. Yasujiro Shimazu | MoMA".
  9. ^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List".
  10. ^ "The Girl in the Rumour (1935)".
  11. ^ "Review: Wife! Be Like a Rose!".
  12. ^ http://ismovieslist.com/movie/244146/avalanche-1937.html
  13. ^ Galbraith IV 1996, p. 95.
  14. ^ http://www.dedicatedwriters.com/biographies/Tadashi-Imai-34086.html

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