List of Japanese films of 1970

A list of films released in Japan in 1970 (see 1970 in film).

Opening	Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes	Ref
15 January	Tora-san, His Tender Love	Azuma Morisaki	Kiyoshi Atsumi, Michiyo Aratama, Shin Morikawa	Comedy	3rd in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
31 January	Apart from Life	Kei Kumai	Mizuho Suzuki Hiroko Kino Mugihito	Drama	Entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival
27 February	Tora-san's Grand Scheme	Shun'ichi Kobayashi	Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Komaki Kurihara	Comedy	4th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
21 March	Gamera vs. Jiger	Noriaki Yuasa	Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy	Kaiju	Part of the Gamera series
18 April	The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan	Masahiro Shinoda	Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Shōichi Ozawa
18 April	Zankoku onna jōshi	Shōgorō Nishimura	Annu Mari, Sanae Ohori, Jirō Okazaki
3 July	History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess	Shohei Imamura	Chieko Akaza	Documentary
1 August	Space Amoeba	Ishirō Honda	Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi	Kaiju
26 August	Tora-san's Runaway	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Aiko Nagayama	Comedy	5th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
1 September	Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter	Yasuharu Hasebe	Meiko Kaji, Rikiya Yasuoka, Tatsuya Fuji		Part of the Stray Cat Rock series
15 September	Cleopatra	Eiichi Yamamoto, Osamu Tezuka	Chinatsu Nakayama	Anime
25 September	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku	Martin Balsam, Sō Yamamura	War	A Japanese-American co-production depicting the Japanese 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
24 October	Kazoku	Yoji Yamada	Chieko Baisho, Hisashi Igawa, Chishu Ryu
31 October	Dodesukaden	Akira Kurosawa	Yoshitaka Zushi	Drama	Kurosawa's first color film
	Sex Jack	Kōji Wakamatsu	Michio Akiyama, Mizako Kaga, Tamaki Katori
	Live Today, Die Tomorrow!	Kaneto Shindo				Won the Golden Prize at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival

External links

• Japanese films of 1970 at the Internet Movie Database