A list of films released in Japan in 1970 (see 1970 in film).
| Title | Director | width=15% | Cast ! | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimisaburo Onogawa, Saburo Shindo, Kei Wakakura | |||||
| [1] | |||||
| Kinnosuke Nakaura, Toshiro Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi | |||||
| Atakku No. 1 | , Fumio Kurokawa | Animated feature | |||
| Atakku No. 1 - Namida no kaiten resibu | , Fumio Kurokawa | Animated feature | |||
| Atakku No. 1 - Namida no sekai senshuken | Animated feature | ||||
| Batsugun joshi kousei-16 sai wa kanjichau | Yoko Naito, Kyoko Yoshizawa, Toshio Kurosawa | Melodrama | |||
| Batsugun joshikousei-Sotto shitoite 16 sai | Kyoko Yoshizawa, Toshio Kurosawa, Yosuke Natsuki | Comedy | |||
| Blind Woman's Curse | Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satō | Crime | [2] [3] | ||
| City of Beasts | Toshio Kurosawa, Rentarō Mikuni, Noriko Takahashi | ||||
| Yūzō Kayama, Jiro Tamiya, Mariko Kaga | |||||
| Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive | Yoko Matsuyama, Yuki Meguro, Shinji Hotta | ||||
| Cruel Female Love Suicide | [4] | ||||
| Dodes'ka-den | Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Kazuo Kato | Drama | [5] | ||
| Duel at Ezo | Yūzō Kayama, Rentarō Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho | ||||
| Five Gents Fly to Taiwan | Hisaya Morishige, Daisuke Katō, Hiroshi Sekiguchi | ||||
| Five Gents and a Kuniang | Hisaya Morishige, Keiju Kobayashi, Daisuke Katō | ||||
| Forbidden Affair | Shima Iwashita, Shiro Mifune, Takashi Kanda | ||||
| Gamera vs. Jiger | Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy | Action, science fiction | [6] | ||
| Gakuensai no yoru-Amai keikun | Keiko Torii, Naoki Tachibana, Yoshiro Uchida | Drama | |||
| Get Your Sky! Young Guy! | Yūzō Kayama, Wakako Sakai, Kunie Tanaka | Musical romance | |||
| Hira hira shain-Yuhi-kun | Osami Nabe, Toshio Kurosawa, Mie Hama | Comedy | |||
| Hira hira shain-Yuhi-kun-Garu hanto no maki | Osami Nabe, Yuki Shirono, Tonpei Hidari | ||||
| History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess | Emiko Akaza, Etusko Akaza, Chieko Akaza | Documentary | |||
| Kigeki dokkiri daitoso | Masaaki Sakai, Noriyuki Inoue, Bunjaku Han | Comedy | |||
| Kigeki ganbare! Nihon danji | Takuya Fujioka, Shoichi Ozawa, Yumi Shirakawa | Comedy | |||
| Kigeki makete tamakura | Kei Tani, Mie Hama, Hideo Sunazuka | Comedy | |||
| Kigeki migimuke hidari! | Masaaki Sakai, Noriyuki Inoue, The Tigers | Comedy | |||
| Kigeki otoko urimasu | Takuya Fujioka, Mitsuko Kusabue, Sanae Nakahara | Comedy | |||
| Konchyu monogatari-Minashigo Hattchi | Animated short | ||||
| Kureejii no nagurikomi shimizu minato | Hitoshi Ueki, Kei Tani, Hajime Hana | ||||
| Kyojin no Hoshi-Dairigu boru | Animated feature | ||||
| Kyojin no Hoshi-Shuku mei no taiketsu | Animated feature | ||||
| Live Today, Die Tomorrow! | |||||
| Love's Great Risk | Pinky and Killers, Shigeru Oya, Naomi Sagara | Musical comedy | |||
| Machibuse | Toshiro Mifune, Shintaro Katsu, Kinnosuke Nakamura | ||||
| Keiju Kobayashi, Yūzō Kayama, Toshiro Mifune | |||||
| Minikui ahiro no ko | Puppet animated short film | ||||
| Nippon ichi no no warunori otoko | Hitoshi Ueki, Cha Kato, Kei Tani | ||||
| Nippon ichi no yakuza otoko | Hitoshi Ueki, Yoko Tsukasa, Yukiko Kobayashi | Comedy | |||
| Odd Affinity | Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Jiro Omaru | ||||
| Oiroke dochu-Kimyo na Nakama | Yosuke Natsuki, Yoichi Hayashi, Reiko Dan | Comedy | |||
| Oiroke konikku-Fushigina nakama | Yosuke Natsuki, Yoichi Hayashi, Judy Ong | Comedy | |||
| Rebel Against Glory | Toshio Kurosawa, Chieko Matsubara, Kunie Tanaka | Action | |||
| Sain wa V | Kaai Okada, Jin Nakayama, Mari Nakayama | Melodrama | |||
| Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town | Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass | Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, Joan Gardner, Robie Lester | Christmas | ||
| Sex Jack[7] | Kōji Wakamatsu | Michio Akiyama, Mizako Kaga, Tamaki Katori | |||
| Sore ga otoko no ikiru michi | Makoto Fujita, Takuya Fujioka, Chitose Kobayashi | Comedy | |||
| Space Amoeba | Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi | ||||
| Crime | [8] [9] | ||||
| [10] [11] | |||||
| Take Care, Little Red Riding Hood | Yusuke Okada, Kazuyo Mori, Tetsuo Tomigawa | Drama | Puppet animated short film | ||
| Terror in the Streets | Wakako Sakai, Katsutoshi Arata, Kenji Imai | Horror | |||
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | , Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku | Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Sō Yamamura | War | Japanese-American co-production[12] | |
| Tora-san, His Tender Love | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Michiyo Aratama, Shin Morikawa | ||||
| Tora-san's Grand Scheme | |||||
| Tora-san's Runaway | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Aiko Nagayama | ||||
| Two Halves | Yukio Aoshima, Chinatsu Nakayama, Jiro Sakagami | Comedy | |||
| Horror | |||||
| Where Spring Comes Late | Chieko Baisho, Hisashi Igawa, Chishū Ryū | ||||
| Will to Conquer | Kinnosuke Yorozuya, Yoshiko Sakuma, Tatsuya Nakadai | ||||
| Women Smell of Night | Akira Kobayashi, Ryohei Uchida, Noriko Maki | ||||
| Yasashii raion | Animated short | ||||
| Yawara no hoshi | Kenichi Sakuragi, Yukiko Kimura, Yoko Hayama | Melodrama | |||
| Zatoichi at the Fire Festival | Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Ohara | ||||
| Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo | Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune, Shin Kishida | Action, adventure | [13] | ||
| Zeni Geba | KaraJuro, Kenbo Kaminarimon, Takeshi Katō | ||||