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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
Yasujirō Ozu
Jiro Shirota , Tatsuo Saitô , Yukiko Inoue
Until the Day We Meet Again
Yasujirō 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
Yasujirō 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
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
(Possibly) Japan's first kaiju film.
1939
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kakuo Mori
Romantic drama
Tsuchi
Tomu Uchida
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