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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
Aiyoku no ki
Heinosuke Gosho
Kinuyo Tanaka , Ichiro Yuki
The Army Advances
Kiyohiko Ushihara
Denmei Suzuki , Kinuyo Tanaka
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
Mikio Naruse
Hiroko Kawasaki, Teruo Mori
Drama
That Night's Wife
Yasujirō Ozu
Tokihiko Okada , Emiko Yagumo
Comedy
[ 2]
Tojin Okichi
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kaichi Yamamoto, Koji Shima
Drama
Walk Cheerfully
Yasujirō Ozu
Satoko Date , Hiroko Kawasaki
Drama
[ 3]
What Made Her Do It?
Shigeyoshi Suzuki
Keiko Takatsu , Rintaro Fujima
1931
The Lady and the Beard
Yasujirō Ozu
Tokihiko Okada , Hiroko Kawasaki
Romantic comedy
[ 4]
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine
Heinosuke Gosho
Atsushi Watanabe , Kinuyo Tanaka
Japan's first commercially successful talkie
Tokyo Chorus
Yasujirō Ozu
Tokihiko Okada
Drama
1932
Chūshingura
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Tomio Aoki , Juzaburo Bando , Kōtarō Bandō
First Steps Ashore
Yasujirō Shimazu
Ureo Egawa , Shin'ichi Himori , Chōko Iida
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
Takako Irie , Eiji Nakano , Taisuke Matsumoto
Nasanunaka
Mikio Naruse
Yoshiko Okada , Shin'yō Nara , Yukiko Tsukuba
Drama
Spring Comes from the Ladies
Yasujirō Ozu
Jiro Shirota , Tatsuo Saitō , Yukiko Inoue
Until the Day We Meet Again
Yasujirō Ozu
Yoshiko Okada , Joji Oka , Shin'yō Nara
Uzumaki
Hiroshi Innami
Shizuko Mori , Taisuke Matsumoto , Kenji Yuri
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth
Yasujirō Ozu
Ureo Egawa , Kinuyo Tanaka , Tatsuo Saitō
Drama
[ 5]
1933
Apart from You
Mikio Naruse
Mitsuko Yoshikawa , Akio Isono
Drama
Dragnet Girl
Yasujirō Ozu
Kinuyo Tanaka
Crime
The Life of Bangaku
Sadao Yamanaka
Lost film [ 6]
Nightly Dreams
Mikio Naruse
Sumiko Kurishima , Teruko Kojima
Drama
[ 7]
Passing Fancy
Yasujirō Ozu
Takeshi Sakamoto
Wasei Kingu Kongu
Tatsuo Saitō
Yasuko Koizumi
The Water Magician
Kenji Mizoguchi
Takako Irie , Tokihiko Okada , Ichirō Sugai
1934
Aizō Tōge
Kenji Mizoguchi
Isuzu Yamada , Denmei Suzuki , Komako Hara
A Mother Should Be Loved
Yasujirō Ozu
Den Ohinata , Hideo Mitsui
Drama
Our Neighbour Miss Yae
Yasujirō Shimazu
Drama
[ 8]
A Story of Floating Weeds
Yasujirō Ozu
Takeshi Sakamoto
Drama
Street Without End
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Shinobu , Akio Isono
Drama
[ 9]
1935
The Girl in the Rumour
Mikio Naruse
Sachiko Chiba , Kamatara Fujiwara
Drama
[ 10]
An Inn in Tokyo
Yasujirō Ozu
Takeshi Sakamoto , Yoshiko Okada
Kimiko
Mikio Naruse
The Million Ryo Pot
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjiro Okochi
Comedy
Orizuru Osen
Kenji Mizoguchi
Isuzu Yamada
The Village-Tattooed Man
Sadao Yamanaka
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Mikio Naruse
Sachiko Chiba , Sadao Maruyama
First Japanese film to get a foreign release [ 11]
1936
The Only Son
Yasujirō Ozu
Chishū Ryū
Drama
Osaka Elegy
Kenji Mizoguchi
Isuzu Yamada Yoko Umemura
Drama
Sisters of the Gion
Kenji Mizoguchi
Isuzu Yamada
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
Drama
Kagirinaki Zenshin
Tomu Uchida
Isamu Kosugi
What Did the Lady Forget?
Yasujirō Ozu
Tatsuo Saitō , Sumiko Kurishima
Comedy drama
1938
Ah, My Home Town
Kenji Mizoguchi
Fumiko Yamaji , Masao Shimizu , Seiichi Kato
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Five Scouts
Tomotaka Tasaka
Hikaru Hoshi Ichirō Izawa
King Kong Appears in Edo
Soya Kumagai
Eizaburo Matsumoto
(Possibly) Japan's first kaiju film.
1939
Numana heigakko
Tadashi Imai
Drama
[ 14]
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kakuo Mori
Romantic drama
Tsuchi
Tomu Uchida
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