Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
1940 |
Kaze no Matasaburo | Koji Shima | Akikhiko Katayama | Drama | |
Nobuko | Hiroshi Shimizu | | Drama | |
Shina no yoru | Osamu Fushimizu | Kazuo Hasegawa, Shirley Yamaguchi | Propaganda | |
Travelling Actors | Mikio Naruse | Kamatari Fujiwara, Kan Yanagiya | Comedy | [1] |
1941 |
The 47 Ronin | Kenji Mizoguchi | Chojuro Kawarasaki | Samurai film | |
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family | Yasujirō Ozu | Mieko Takamine | Drama | |
Hideko the Bus-Conductor | Mikio Naruse | Hideko Takamine, Kamatari Fujiwara | Drama | |
Ornamental Hairpin | Hiroshi Shimizu | Saito Tatsuo, Tanaka Kinuyo | Drama | [2] |
1942 |
Hawai Mare oki kaisen | Kajiro Yamamoto | Susumu Fujita, Setsuko Hara | Propaganda | |
Momotarō no Umiwashi | Mitsuyo Seo | | Propaganda Animation | |
There Was a Father | Yasujirō Ozu | Mitsuko Mito, Chishū Ryū | Drama | |
1943 |
Sanshiro Sugata | Akira Kurosawa | Denjiro Okochi, Susumu Fujita | Drama Martial arts | Akira Kurosawa's first film |
1944 |
Army | Keisuke Kinoshita | Chishū Ryū, Kinuyo Tanaka | Drama | |
Miyamoto Musashi | Kenji Mizoguchi | Chojuro Kawarasaki, Kinuyo Tanaka | Jidaigeki | [3] |
The Most Beautiful | Akira Kurosawa | Ichirō Sugai | Propaganda drama | |
1945 |
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail | Akira Kurosawa | Susumu Fujita | Samurai film | |
Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei | Mitsuyo Seo | | Propaganda Animation | |
Sanshiro Sugata Part II | Akira Kurosawa | Denjiro Okochi | Martial arts film | |
1946 |
Aru yo no Tonosama | Teinosuke Kinugasa | | | |
A Descendant of Taro Urashima | Mikio Naruse | Susumu Fujita, Nobuo Nakamura | Drama | [4] |
Josei no Shori | Kenji Mizoguchi | Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiko Kuwano | Drama | [5] |
Minshū no Teki | Tadashi Imai | Susumu Fujita, Akitake Kōno | Drama | |
No Regrets for Our Youth | Akira Kurosawa | Masao Shimizu | Drama | |
Those Who Make Tomorrow | Akira Kurosawa | Kenji Susukida | | |
Utamaro and His Five Women | Kenji Mizoguchi | Kinuyo Tanaka | Biopic | |
1947 |
Ima Hitotabi no | Heinosuke Gosho | | | |
The Love of Sumako, the Actress | Kenji Mizoguchi | Kinuyo Tanaka, So Yamamura | Drama | [6] |
One Wonderful Sunday | Akira Kurosawa | Isao Numasaki | Romantic comedy | |
The Record of a Tenement Gentleman | Yasujirō Ozu | Chouko Iida, Hohi Aoki | Drama | |
Snow Trail | Senkichi Taniguchi | Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura | | |
These Foolish Times | Kajiro Yamamoto | Roppa Furukawa, Kenichi Enomoto | Comedy | [7] |
1948 |
Drunken Angel | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune | Crime drama | |
A Hen in the Wind | Yasujirō Ozu | Kinuyo Tanaka | Drama | |
1949 |
Aoi sanmyaku | Tadashi Imai | Setsuko Hara, Ryo Ikebe | Comedy drama | |
Jakoman and Tetsu | Senkichi Taniguchi | Toshiro Mifune | | [8] |
Jigoku no kifujin | Motoyoshi Oda | Michiyo Kogure, Eitaro Ozawa, Ichiro Ryuzaki | N/A | |
Kane no naru oka: Dai san hen, kuro no maki | Keisuki Sasaki | Keiji Sada, Masao Inoue | | |
Late Spring | Yasujirō Ozu | Haruko Sugimura | Drama | |
The Quiet Duel | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune | | |
Stray Dog | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune | Crime drama | |
Zoku aoi sanmyaku | Tadashi Imai | Setsuko Hara, Ryo Ikebe | Comedy drama | [10] |