Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes
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1930
|
Aiyoku no ki |
Heinosuke Gosho |
Kinuyo Tanaka, Ichiro Yuki |
|
|
The Army Advances |
Kiyohiko Ushihara |
Denmei Suzuki, Kinuyo Tanaka |
War drama |
|
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 |
|
Tojin Okichi |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
Kaichi Yamamoto, Koji Shima |
Drama |
|
Walk Cheerfully |
Yasujirō Ozu |
Satoko Date, Hiroko Kawasaki |
Drama |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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
|
Nightly Dreams |
Mikio Naruse |
Sumiko Kurishima, Teruko Kojima |
Drama |
|
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 |
|
A Story of Floating Weeds |
Yasujirō Ozu |
Takeshi Sakamoto |
Drama |
|
Street Without End |
Mikio Naruse |
Setsuko Shinobu, Akio Isono |
Drama |
|
1935
|
The Girl in the Rumour |
Mikio Naruse |
Sachiko Chiba, Kamatara Fujiwara |
Drama |
|
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
|
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 |
|
|
|
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 |
— |
|
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 |
|
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
Kakuo Mori |
Romantic drama |
|
Tsuchi |
Tomu Uchida |
|
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