# List of Japanese films of 1977

A list of films released in Japan in 1977 (see 1977 in film).

## Box-office ranking

| Rank | Title | Director | Cast | Box office |
| 1 | Mount Hakkoda | Shirō Moritani | Ken Takakura | ¥2.5 billion |
| 2 | Proof of the Man | Junya Sato | Yūsaku Matsuda | ¥2.25 billion |
| 3 | Village of the Eight Tombs | Yoshitarō Nomura | Kiyoshi Atsumi | ¥1.98 billion |
| 4 | Torakku Yarō 4: Tenka Gomen | Norifumi Suzuki | Bunta Sugawara | ¥1.28 billion |
| 5 | Torakku Yarō 5: Dokyō Ichibanboshi | Norifumi Suzuki | Bunta Sugawara | ¥1.09 billion |

## List of films

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1977 |||||
| Akuma no temari-uta | Kon Ichikawa | | — | |
| The Alaska Story | Hiromichi Horikawa | Kinya Jitaoji, Kyoko Mitsubayashi, Eiji Okada | — | |
| Ballad of Orin | Masahiro Shinoda | Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka | | |
| The Devil's Bouncing Ball Song | Kon Ichikawa, Osamu Tanaka | Koji Ishizaka, Keiko Kishi, Koji Kita | — | |
| Doberman Deka | Kinji Fukasaku | | Action | |
| Enban senso – Ban kitto | Takeharu Kidaka | Eiji Okada, Yukei Tanabe, Akinori Umezu | — | |
| Erotic Diary of an Office Lady | Noboru Tanaka | Asami Ogawa | Roman porno | |
| Fairy in a Cage | Kōyū Ohara | Naomi Tani | Roman porno | |
| The Far Road | Sachiko Hidari | Sachiko Hidari | | Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Fascination: Portrait of a Lady | Kōyū Ohara | Naomi Tani | Roman porno | |
| The Gate of Youth – Part II | Kirio Urayama | Ken Tanaka, Shinobu Otake, Ayumi Ishida | — | |
| The Hobbit | Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass | Orson Bean, Richard Boone, Hans Conried, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Cyril Ritchard, Theodore | Animated musical | |
| Hakunetsu – deddo hiito | Katsushin Ishida | Jun Eto, Yuko Kotegawa, Jun Fubuki | — | |
| Hokuriku Proxy War | Kinji Fukasaku | | Crime, Drama | |
| House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | Kimiko Ikegami Kumiko Oba | Horror | |
| JAKQ Dengeki Tai | | | Action for children | Movie version of JAKQ Dengeki Tai Episode 7. |
| Jigoku no tenshi: Akai bakuon | Makoto Naitô | | | |
| Kozure Satsujinken | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Shinichi Chiba, Tatsuo Umemiya, Isao Natsuygi | | |
| Lady Chatterley In Tokyo | Katsuhiko Fujii | Izumi Shima | Roman porno | |
| Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds | Junji Kurata | | Science fiction | |
| The Life of Chikuzan | Kaneto Shindo | | | Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Manga – Nippon Makashi Banashi – Momotaro | Yasunori Kawauchi, Takao Kodama | | — | |
| Proof of the Man | | | | |
| Kyojin–gun monogatari-Susume!! Eiko e | Tadao Sawashima | Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima | Documentary | |
| Seinen no ki | Kiyoshi Nishimura | Tomokazu Miura, Fumi Dan, Yumeji Tuskioka | — | |
| A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness | Seijun Suzuki | Yoko Shiraki Yoshio Harada | Drama | |
| Tattooed Flower Vase | Masaru Konuma | Naomi Tani | Roman porno | |
| Tora-san Meets His Lordship | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 19th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series |
| Tora-san Plays Cupid | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 20th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series |
| Wakai hito | Yoshihiro Kawarazaki | Junko Sakurada, Akira Onodera, Kyoko Hayashi | — | |
| The War in Space | Jun Fukuda | Kensaku Morita Yūko Asano | Tokusatsu | |
| Yatta Man | Eiji Tanaka | | — | |
| The Yellow Handkerchief | Yoji Yamada | Ken Takakura | | Japan Academy Prize for Best Film |