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.

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...	Yasujirō 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	Yasujirō Ozu
Wasei Kingu Kongu	Torajiro Saito
1934
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
The Village-Tattooed Man	Sadao Yamanaka
Wife! Be Like a Rose!	Mikio Naruse
1936
The Only Son	Yasujirō 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 Daughter of the Samurai	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

External links

• Japanese film at the Internet Movie Database