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, Ichiro Yuki
The Army Advances Kiyohiko Ushihara Denmei Suzuki, Kinuyo Tanaka War drama [1]
Furusato Kenji Mizoguchi Yoshie Fujiwara
Shizue Natsukawa		 Japan's second feature-length talkie (after Taii no Musume (The Captain's Daughter))
Love Is Strength Mikio Naruse Hiroko Kawasaki, Teruo Mori Drama
That Night's Wife Yasujirō Ozu Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo Comedy [2]
Tojin Okichi Kenji Mizoguchi Kaichi Yamamoto, Koji Shima Drama
Walk Cheerfully Yasujirō Ozu Satoko Date, Hiroko Kawasaki Drama [3]
What Made Her Do It? Shigeyoshi Suzuki Keiko Takatsu, Rintaro Fujima
1931
The Lady and the Beard Yasujirō Ozu Tokihiko Okada, Hiroko Kawasaki 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, Juzaburo Bando, Kōtarō Bandō
First Steps Ashore Yasujirō Shimazu Ureo Egawa, Shin'ichi Himori, Chōko Iida
I Was Born, But... Yasujirō Ozu Tatsuo Saitō Comedy drama
Kokushi muso Mansaku Itami Shuichiro Atsumi, Junzaburō Ban, Chiezō Kataoka
Manmo kenkoku no reimei Kenji Mizoguchi Takako Irie, Eiji Nakano, Taisuke Matsumoto
Nasanunaka Mikio Naruse Yoshiko Okada, Shin'yō Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba Drama
Spring Comes from the Ladies Yasujirō Ozu Jiro Shirota, Tatsuo Saitō, Yukiko Inoue
Until the Day We Meet Again Yasujirō Ozu Yoshiko Okada, Joji Oka, Shin'yō Nara
Uzumaki Hiroshi Innami Shizuko Mori, Taisuke Matsumoto, Kenji Yuri
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth Yasujirō Ozu Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saitō Drama [5]
1933
Apart from You Mikio Naruse Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono Drama
Dragnet Girl Yasujirō Ozu Kinuyo Tanaka Crime
The Life of Bangaku Sadao Yamanaka Lost film [6]
Nightly Dreams Mikio Naruse Sumiko Kurishima, Teruko Kojima Drama [7]
Passing Fancy Yasujirō Ozu Takeshi Sakamoto
Wasei Kingu Kongu Tatsuo Saitō Yasuko Koizumi
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 Den Ohinata, Hideo Mitsui Drama
Our Neighbour Miss Yae Yasujirō Shimazu Drama [8]
A Story of Floating Weeds Yasujirō Ozu Takeshi Sakamoto Drama
Street Without End Mikio Naruse Setsuko Shinobu, Akio Isono Drama [9]
1935
The Girl in the Rumour Mikio Naruse Sachiko Chiba, Kamatara Fujiwara Drama [10]
An Inn in Tokyo Yasujirō Ozu Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada
Kimiko Mikio Naruse
The Million Ryo Pot Sadao Yamanaka Denjiro Okochi Comedy
Orizuru Osen Kenji Mizoguchi Isuzu Yamada
The Village-Tattooed Man Sadao Yamanaka
Wife! Be Like a Rose! Mikio Naruse Sachiko Chiba, Sadao Maruyama First Japanese film to get a foreign release [11]
1936
The Only Son Yasujirō Ozu Chishū Ryū Drama
Osaka Elegy Kenji Mizoguchi Isuzu Yamada
Yoko Umemura		 Drama
Sisters of the Gion Kenji Mizoguchi Isuzu Yamada Drama
1937
Avalanche 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 Chojuro Kawarazaki Drama
Kagirinaki Zenshin Tomu Uchida Isamu Kosugi
What Did the Lady Forget? Yasujirō Ozu Tatsuo Saitō, Sumiko Kurishima Comedy drama
1938
Ah, My Home Town Kenji Mizoguchi Fumiko Yamaji, Masao Shimizu, Seiichi Kato — [13]
Five Scouts Tomotaka Tasaka Hikaru Hoshi
Ichirō Izawa
King Kong Appears in Edo Soya Kumagai Eizaburo Matsumoto (Possibly) Japan's first kaiju film.
1939
Numana heigakko Tadashi Imai Drama [14]
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Kenji Mizoguchi Kakuo Mori Romantic drama
Tsuchi Tomu Uchida

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ "The Army Advances (1930)".
  2. ^ "That Night's Wife".
  3. ^ "WALK CHEERFULLY | British Board of Film Classification". Archived from the original on 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
  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)". Archived from the original on August 26, 2017.
  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!". Slant Magazine. 3 January 2006.
  12. ^ http://ismovieslist.com/movie/244146/avalanche-1937.html [dead link]
  13. ^ Galbraith IV 1996, p. 95.
  14. ^ "Biographies on Tadashi Imai | Research papers on Tadashi Imai".

Sources

  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0032-3.
  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743. Retrieved October 29, 2013.

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