List of Japanese films of the 1930s explained
An incomplete list of films produced in Japan ordered by year in the 1930s. For an alphabetical list of films see . Also see cinema of Japan.
Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 1930 |
Aiyoku no ki | Heinosuke Gosho | Kinuyo Tanaka, Ichiro Yuki | | |
The Army Advances | | | 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 | | Hiroko Kawasaki, Teruo Mori | Drama | |
That Night's Wife | | | Comedy | [2] |
Tojin Okichi | | | Drama | |
Walk Cheerfully | | | Drama | [3] |
What Made Her Do It? | Shigeyoshi Suzuki | | | |
| 1931 |
The Lady and the Beard | | | Romantic comedy | [4] |
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine | | | | Japan's first commercially successful talkie |
Tokyo Chorus | | | Drama | |
| 1932 |
Chūshingura | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Tomio Aoki, Juzaburo Bando, Kōtarō Bandō | | |
First Steps Ashore | Yasujirō Shimazu | | | |
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 | | | |
Nasanunaka | Mikio Naruse | | Drama | |
Spring Comes from the Ladies | Yasujirō Ozu | Jiro Shirota, Tatsuo Saitō, Yukiko Inoue | | |
Until the Day We Meet Again | Yasujirō Ozu | | | |
Uzumaki | Hiroshi Innami | | | |
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth | | | Drama | [5] |
| 1933 |
Apart from You | | | Drama | |
Dragnet Girl | | | | |
The Life of Bangaku | Sadao Yamanaka | | | Lost film [6] |
Nightly Dreams | Mikio Naruse | | Drama | [7] |
Passing Fancy | | | | |
Wasei Kingu Kongu | | | | |
The Water Magician | | | | |
| 1934 |
Aizō Tōge | Kenji Mizoguchi | | | |
A Mother Should Be Loved | | | Drama | |
Our Neighbour Miss Yae | | | Drama | [8] |
A Story of Floating Weeds | | | Drama | |
Street Without End | | | Drama | [9] |
| 1935 |
The Girl in the Rumour | | | Drama | [10] |
An Inn in Tokyo | | | | |
Kimiko | | | | |
The Million Ryo Pot | | | Comedy | |
Orizuru Osen | Kenji Mizoguchi | | | |
The Village-Tattooed Man | Sadao Yamanaka | | | |
Wife! Be Like a Rose! | | | | First Japanese film to get a foreign release [11] |
| 1936 |
The Only Son | | | | |
Osaka Elegy | Kenji Mizoguchi | Isuzu Yamada Yoko Umemura | Drama | |
Sisters of the Gion | Kenji Mizoguchi | | 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 | | |
Kagirinaki Zenshin | Tomu Uchida | | | |
What Did the Lady Forget? | | | Comedy drama | |
| 1938 |
Ah, My Home Town | | Fumiko Yamaji, Masao Shimizu, Seiichi Kato | | |
Five Scouts | Tomotaka Tasaka | | | |
King Kong Appears in Edo | | Eizaburo Matsumoto | | (Possibly) Japan's first kaiju film. |
| 1939 |
Numana heigakko | | | Drama | [13] |
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums | Kenji Mizoguchi | Kakuo Mori | Romantic drama | |
Tsuchi | Tomu Uchida | | | | |
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Notes and References
- Web site: The Army Advances (1930).
- Web site: That Night's Wife.
- Web site: WALK CHEERFULLY | British Board of Film Classification . 2017-05-04 . 2018-03-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180330075858/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/walk-cheerfully-1930 . dead .
- Web site: Review of the film the Lady and the Beard (1931). 22 November 2013.
- Web site: Review of the film Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932). 22 November 2013.
- Web site: Uncovering lost worlds of Japanese film. 14 September 2003.
- Web site: Yogoto No Yume (1933). https://web.archive.org/web/20170826140430/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b78e182dc. dead. August 26, 2017.
- Web site: Tonari no Yae-chan (Our Neighbour, Miss Yae). 1934. Yasujiro Shimazu | MoMA.
- Web site: Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List.
- Web site: The Girl in the Rumour (1935).
- Web site: Review: Wife! Be Like a Rose!. Slant Magazine. 3 January 2006.
- http://ismovieslist.com/movie/244146/avalanche-1937.html
- Web site: Biographies on Tadashi Imai | Research papers on Tadashi Imai.