Japanese films of the 1930s

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List of Japanese films
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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.

1930s

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1930
The Army Advances' Kiyohiko Ushihara Denmei Suzuki
Kinuyo Tanaka
Aiyoku no ki Heinosuke Gosho Kinuyo Tanaka
Ichiro Yuki
What Made Her Do It? Shigeyoshi Suzuki Keiko Takatsu
Rintaro Fujima
Furusato (1930 film) Kenji Mizoguchi Yoshie Fujiwara
Shizue Natsukawa
Japan's second feature-length talkie (after Taii no Musume (The Captain's Daughter))
1931
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine Heinosuke Gosho Japan's first commercially successful talkie
Tokyo Chorus Yasujirō Ozu Tokihiko Okada Drama
1932
I Was Born, But... Yasujiro Ozu Tatsuo Saito Comedy drama
1933
Dragnet Girl Yasujirô Ozu Kinuyo Tanaka Crime
The Life of Bangaku Sadao Yamanaka
Nightly Dreams Mikio Naruse
Passing Fancy Yasujiro Ozu
Wasei Kingu Kongu Torajiro Saito
1934
A Story of Floating Weeds Yasujiro Ozu
Our Neighbour Miss Yae Yasujiro Shimazu
1935
The Girl in the Rumour Mikio Naruse
An Inn in Tokyo Yasujiro Ozu Takeshi Sakamoto
The Million Ryo Pot Sadao Yamanaka
Kimiko Mikio Naruse
The Village-Tattooed Man Sadao Yamanaka
Wife! Be Like a Rose! Mikio Naruse
1936
The Only Son Yasujiro Ozu Chishu Ryu Drama
Osaka Elegy Kenji Mizoguchi Isuzu Yamada
Yoko Umemura
Drama
Sisters of the Gion Kenji Mizoguchi
1937
Avalanche Mikio Naruse
Humanity and Paper Balloons Sadao Yamanaka Chojuro Kawarazaki Drama
The New Earth Mansaku Itami
Arnold Fanck
Setsuko Hara
Sesshu Hayakawa
Drama Japanese/German production
1938
King Kong Appears in Edo (Possibly) Japan's first kaiju film.
1939
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Kenji Mizoguchi Kakuo Mori Romantic drama

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