# List of Japanese films of 1973

This is a list of films released in Japan in 1973. In 1973, there were 2530 movie theatres in Japan, with 1332 showing only domestic films and 556 showing both domestic and imported films. In total, there were 405 Japanese films released in 1973. In total, domestic films grossed 19,458 million yen in 1973.
Japanese films released in 1973 :
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Akaitori nigeta | Toshihachi Fujita | Yoshio Harada, Kaori Momoi, Masaaki Daimon | — | |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity | Kinji Fukasaku | Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko | — | |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima | Kinji Fukasaku | Bunta Sugawara, Sonny Chiba, Meiko Kaji | — | |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War | Kinji Fukasaku | Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase | — | |
| Belladonna of Sadness | Eiichi Yamamoto | | — | Animated film |
| Bishamonten bojo | Michiyoshi Doi | Hideo Sunazuka, Hisaya Morishige, Junzaburo Ban | — | |
| Esu o nerae! Tenisu okoku no Shinderera | Osamu Dezaki | | — | Animated short |
| Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable | Shunya Itō | Meiko Kaji, Mikio Narita, Koji Nanbara | — | |
| Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701's Grudge Song | Yasuharu Hasebe | Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Toshiyuki Hosokawa | — | |
| Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture | Teruo Ishii | Reiko Ike | Pinky Violent | |
| Flying At 'Ya, Android Kikaider | Hidetoshi Kitamura | Daisuke Ban | Tokusatsu | |
| Godzilla vs. Megalon | Jun Fukuda | Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Robert Dunham | — | |
| Gokiburi deka | Tsugunobu Kotani | Tetsuya Watari, Takeo Jii, Masaaki Daimon | — | |
| Golgo 13 (film) | | | | |
| Hangyako no hoshu | Yukihiro Sawada | Yujiro Ishihara, Tetsuya Watari, Mieko takamine | — | |
| Hanzo the Razor – The Snare | Yasuzo Masumura | Shintaro Katsu, Kō Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa | — | |
| Hatachi no genten | Kenjiro Omori | Yuriko Sumi, Takeo Jii, Masaaki Daimon | — | |
| Jyanguru Kurobe | Osamu Dezaki | | — | Animated short |
| Kagaku ninja tai Gacchaman–Densi kaiju Renjiraa | Hisayuki Toriumi | | — | Animated short |
| Kagaku ninja tai Gacchaman–Hinotori tai hikuma | Hisayuki Toriumi | | — | Animated short |
| Kamen Rider V3 | Minoru Yamada | Hiroshi Miyauchi | Tokusatsu | |
| Kamen Rider V3 vs. the Destron Monsters | Minoru Yamada | Hiroshi Miyauchi | Tokusatsu | |
| Koju hosho | Kazuo Inoue | Hisaya Morishige, Etsuko Ichimura, Akira Kawaguchi | — | |
| Kokosei burai hikae–Kanjiru u~Muramasa | Mio Ezaki | Masaaki Daimon, Yachiyo Otori, Toru Abe | — | |
| Kokosei burai hikae–Tsuki no Muramasa | Mio Ezaki | Masaaki Daimon, Yuriko Hishimi, Sayoko Kato | — | |
| Konketsuji Rika–Hama gure komoriuta | Kozaburo Yoshimura | Rika Aoki, Jiro Kawarazaki, Kunie Tanaka | — | |
| Konketsuji Rika–Hitori yuku sasuraitabi | Ko Nakahira | Rika Aoki, Ryunosuke Minegishi, Kaoru Hama | — | |
| Lady Snowblood | Toshiya Fujita | Meiko Kaji, Akira Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa | Chanbara | |
| Little Adventurer–Sotsugyo ryoko | Masanobu Deme | Mark Lester, Gerald Lancaster, Zhen Zhen | Family | |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons | Kenji Misumi | Tomisaburo Wakayama, Michio Yasuda, Akihiro Tomikawa | — | |
| Long Journey into Love | Masanobu Deme | Komaki Kurihara, Go Kato, Kyoko Maya | — | |
| Mushukunin Mikogami no Jokichi–Tasogare ni senko ga tonda | Kazuo Ikehiro | Yoshio Harada, Isao Natsuyagi, Michiyo Yasuda | — | |
| Mute Samurai | | | | |
| Ningen kakumei | Toshio Masuda | Tetsuro Tamba, Shinsuke Ashida, Michiyo Aratama | — | |
| Nippon kyokaden–Dai ichibu No azami/Dai nibu Aoi botan | Tai Kato | Yoko Maki, Tetsuya Watari, Kinya Kitaoji | — | |
| Nippon sanjushi–Hakata obi shime ippon dokko no maki | Kihachi Okamoto | Keiju Kobayashi, Yusuke Okada, Mickey Yasukawa | — | |
| Ōkami no monshō | Masashi Matsumoto | Taro Shigaki, Toshio Kurosawa, Akiko Aki | — | |
| Omocha ya Ken-Chan–Yoso de wa iko | Yoshitaka Sone | Yasuyuki Miyawaki, Tomoko Nagaharu, Masaaki Maeda | — | |
| Ōshō | Hiromichi Horikawa | Shintaro Katsu, Tamao Nakamura, Mikiko Otanashi | — | |
| Panda • kopanda–Amefuri sakasu | Isao Takahata | | — | Animated short |
| The Petrified Forest | Masahiro Shinoda | Kenichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi | — | |
| Rainboo Man–Satsujin Purofesshyonaru | Taku Nagano | Yasukuni Mizutani, Masao Murata, Megumi Ito | — | |
| Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland | Yukihiro Sawada | Yuri Yamashina, Takeo Chii | — | |
| Rise, Fair Sun | Kei Kumai | Tatsuya Nakadai, Kiny Kitaoji, Keiko Sekine | — | |
| Saeteru yatsuya | Yasuhiro Yoshimatsu | Kiyotaka Mitsuki, Ichiro Ogura, Rumi Matsumoto | — | |
| Sakura no daimon | Kenji Misumi | Tomisaburo Wakayama, Minoru Oki, Hiroshi Sekiguchi | — | |
| Samurai jyaiantsu–Hoeru banbaban | Tadao Nagahara | | — | Animated short |
| Sarariiman jingi | Tsugunobu Kotani | Osami Nabe, Kunie Tanaka, Raita Ryu | — | |
| Senso o shiranai kodomatachi | Masashi Matsumoto | Yoshiki Shimamura, Sayoko Kato, Wakako Sakai | — | |
| Sex & Fury | Noribumi Suzuki | Reiko Ike, Christina Lindberg, Masataka Naruse | Action | |
| Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom | Noribumi Suzuki | Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike | Thriller | |
| Tidal Wave | Shiro Moritani | Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka, Tetsuro Tamba | — | |
| Tobidase! Seishun | Masahiro Takase | Takenori Murano, Shoji Ishibashi, Ichiro Arishima | — | |
| Tora-san Loves an Artist | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Chieko Misaki | — | |
| Tora-san's Forget Me Not | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Chieko Misaki | — | |
| Tsugaru Folk Song | Kōichi Saitō | | | |
| Twilight Years | Shiro Toyoda | Hisaya Morishige, Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura | — | |
| Urutoraman Tarou–Moero! Urutora 6 kyodai | Kazuo Sagawa | Saburo Shinoda, Takahiko Tono, Shusuke Tsumura | — | |
| Urutoraman Tarou–Urutora no haha wa taiyo no yo ni | Eizo Yamagiwa | Saburo Shinoda, Akira Nagoya, Takahiko Higashino | — | |
| The World of Geisha | Tatsumi Kumashiro | Junko Miyashita | Roman porno | Kinema Junpo's 6th best Japanese film of the year |
| Yaju gari | Eizo Sugawa | Hiroshi Fujioka, Junzaburo Ban, Mayumi Nagisa | — | |
| Yama nezumi Rokkii Chyakku–Ganbare Chatara | Masaharu Endo, Tadamichi Koga | | — | Animated short |
| Za • Gokiburi | Tsugunobu Kotani | Hiroshi Fujioka, Junzaburo Ban, Mayumi Nagisa | — | |
| Zatoichi's Conspiracy | Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Shintaro Katsu, Eiji Okada, Kei Satō | — | |