List of Japanese films of the 1930s

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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.

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	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
Chûshingura	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Tomio Aoki, Juzaburo Bando, Kôtarô Bandô
First Steps Ashore	Yasujirō Shimazu	Ureo Egawa, Shin'ichi Himori, Chôko Iida
I Was Born, But...	Yasujirō Ozu	Tatsuo Saito	Comedy drama
Kokushi muso	Mansaku Itami	Shuichiro Atsumi, Junzaburô Ban, Chiezo Kataoka
Manmo kenkoku no reimei	Kenji Mizoguchi	Takako Irie, Eiji Nakano, Taisuke Matsumoto
Nasanunaka	Mikio Naruse	Yoshiko Okada, Shin'yô Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba	Drama
Spring Comes from the Ladies	Yasujirô Ozu	Jiro Shirota, Tatsuo Saitô, Yukiko Inoue
Until the Day We Meet Again	Yasujirô Ozu	Yoshiko Okada, Joji Oka, Shin'yô Nara
Uzumaki	Hiroshi Innami	Shizuko Mori, Taisuke Matsumoto, Kenji Yuri
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth	Yasujirō Ozu	Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saitô
1933
Dragnet Girl	Yasujirô Ozu	Kinuyo Tanaka	Crime
The Life of Bangaku	Sadao Yamanaka
Nightly Dreams	Mikio Naruse
Passing Fancy	Yasujirō Ozu
Wasei Kingu Kongu	Torajiro Saito
The Water Magician	Kenji Mizoguchi	Takako Irie, Tokihiko Okada, Ichirō Sugai
1934
Aizō Tōge	Kenji Mizoguchi	Isuzu Yamada, Denmei Suzuki, Komako Hara
A Story of Floating Weeds	Yasujirō Ozu
Our Neighbour Miss Yae	Yasujirō Shimazu
1935
The Girl in the Rumour	Mikio Naruse
An Inn in Tokyo	Yasujirō Ozu	Takeshi Sakamoto
The Million Ryo Pot	Sadao Yamanaka
Kimiko	Mikio Naruse
Orizuru Osen	Kenji Mizoguchi	Isuzu Yamada
The Village-Tattooed Man	Sadao Yamanaka
Wife! Be Like a Rose!	Mikio Naruse
1936
The Only Son	Yasujirō Ozu	Chishū Ryū	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
Kagirinaki Zenshin	Tomu Uchida	Isamu Kosugi
The Daughter of the Samurai	Mansaku Itami Arnold Fanck	Setsuko Hara Sesshu Hayakawa	Drama	Japanese/German production
1938
Five Scouts	Tomotaka Tasaka	Hikaru Hoshi Ichirō Izawa
King Kong Appears in Edo				(Possibly) Japan's first kaiju film.
1939
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums	Kenji Mizoguchi	Kakuo Mori	Romantic drama
Tsuchi	Tomu Uchida

External links

• Japanese film at the Internet Movie Database