List of Japanese films of the 1930s

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

^ "The Army Advances (1930)".
^ "That Night's Wife".
^ "WALK CHEERFULLY | British Board of Film Classification". Archived from the original on 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
^ "Review of the film the Lady and the Beard (1931)". 22 November 2013.
^ "Review of the film Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)". 22 November 2013.
^ "Uncovering lost worlds of Japanese film". 14 September 2003.
^ "Yogoto No Yume (1933)". Archived from the original on August 26, 2017.
^ "Tonari no Yae-chan (Our Neighbour, Miss Yae). 1934. Yasujiro Shimazu | MoMA".
^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List".
^ "The Girl in the Rumour (1935)".
^ "Review: Wife! Be Like a Rose!". Slant Magazine. 3 January 2006.
^ http://ismovieslist.com/movie/244146/avalanche-1937.html ^{[dead link]}
^ Galbraith IV 1996, p. 95.
^ "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.

External links

Japanese film at the Internet Movie Database

[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] ttps://ismovieslist.com/movie/244146/avalanche-1937.html ^{[dead link]}

[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV199695-13] Galbraith IV 1996, p. 95.

[14] "Biographies on Tadashi Imai | Research papers on Tadashi Imai".

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