A list of films released in Japan in 1977 (see 1977 in film).
| Rank | Title | Director | Cast | Box office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Hakkoda | Shirō Moritani | Ken Takakura | ||
| 2 | Proof of the Man | Junya Sato | Yūsaku Matsuda | ||
| 3 | Village of the Eight Tombs | Yoshitarō Nomura | Kiyoshi Atsumi | ||
| 4 | Torakku Yarō 4: Tenka Gomen | Norifumi Suzuki | Bunta Sugawara | ||
| 5 | Torakku Yarō 5: Dokyō Ichibanboshi | Norifumi Suzuki | Bunta Sugawara |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | |||||
| Akuma no temari-uta | [1] | ||||
| Hiromichi Horikawa | Kinya Jitaoji, Kyoko Mitsubayashi, Eiji Okada | [2] | |||
| Ballad of Orin | [3] | ||||
| , Osamu Tanaka | Koji Ishizaka, Keiko Kishi, Koji Kita | ||||
| Doberman Deka | Action | ||||
| Enban senso – Ban kitto | Eiji Okada, Yukei Tanabe, Akinori Umezu | ||||
| Erotic Diary of an Office Lady | Noboru Tanaka | Asami Ogawa | Roman porno | ||
| Fairy in a Cage | Kōyū Ohara | Naomi Tani | Roman porno | [4] [5] | |
| The Far Road | Sachiko Hidari | Sachiko Hidari | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| Kōyū Ohara | Naomi Tani | Roman porno | |||
| Ken Tanaka, Shinobu Otake, Ayumi Ishida | |||||
| The Hobbit | Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass | Orson Bean, Richard Boone, Hans Conried, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Cyril Ritchard, Theodore | Animated musical | ||
| Hakunetsu – deddo hiito | Jun Eto, Yuko Kotegawa, Jun Fubuki | ||||
| Hokuriku Proxy War | Kinji Fukasaku | Crime, Drama | |||
| House | Kimiko Ikegami Kumiko Oba | Horror | [6] | ||
| JAKQ Dengeki Tai | Movie version of JAKQ Dengeki Tai Episode 7. | ||||
| Jigoku no tenshi: Akai bakuon | Makoto Naitô | ||||
| Kozure Satsujinken | [7] | ||||
| Lady Chatterley In Tokyo | Katsuhiko Fujii | Izumi Shima | Roman porno | ||
| Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds | Junji Kurata | Science fiction | |||
| The Life of Chikuzan | Kaneto Shindo | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival | |||
| Manga – Nippon Makashi Banashi – Momotaro | , Takao Kodama | ||||
| Proof of the Man | |||||
| Kyojin–gun monogatari-Susume! | Eiko e | Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima | Documentary | ||
| Seinen no ki | Tomokazu Miura, Fumi Dan, Yumeji Tuskioka | [8] | |||
| A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness | Seijun Suzuki | Yoko Shiraki Yoshio Harada | |||
| Tattooed Flower Vase | Masaru Konuma | Naomi Tani | Roman porno | ||
| Tora-san Meets His Lordship | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | 19th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series | ||
| Tora-san Plays Cupid | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | 20th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series | ||
| Wakai hito | Junko Sakurada, Akira Onodera, Kyoko Hayashi | ||||
| The War in Space | Kensaku Morita Yūko Asano | Tokusatsu | |||
| Yatta Man | |||||
| The Yellow Handkerchief | Japan Academy Prize for Best Film | ||||