# List of Japanese films of the 1930s

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 |||||
| Aiyoku no ki | Heinosuke Gosho | Kinuyo Tanaka, Ichiro Yuki | | |
| The Army Advances | Kiyohiko Ushihara | Denmei Suzuki, Kinuyo Tanaka | War drama | |
| Furusato | Kenji Mizoguchi | Yoshie Fujiwara Shizue Natsukawa | | Japan's second feature-length talkie (after Taii no Musume (The Captain's Daughter)) |
| Love Is Strength | Mikio Naruse | Hiroko Kawasaki, Teruo Mori | Drama | |
| That Night's Wife | Yasujirō Ozu | Tokihiko Okada, Emiko Yagumo | Comedy | |
| Tojin Okichi | Kenji Mizoguchi | Kaichi Yamamoto, Koji Shima | Drama | |
| Walk Cheerfully | Yasujirō Ozu | Satoko Date, Hiroko Kawasaki | Drama | |
| What Made Her Do It? | Shigeyoshi Suzuki | Keiko Takatsu, Rintaro Fujima | | |
| 1931 |||||
| The Lady and the Beard | Yasujirō Ozu | Tokihiko Okada, Hiroko Kawasaki | Romantic comedy | |
| The Neighbor's Wife and Mine | Heinosuke Gosho | Atsushi Watanabe, Kinuyo Tanaka | | Japan's first commercially successful talkie |
| Tokyo Chorus | Yasujirō Ozu | Tokihiko Okada | Drama | |
| 1932 |||||
| Chūshingura | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Tomio Aoki, Juzaburo Bando, Kōtarō Bandō | | |
| First Steps Ashore | Yasujirō Shimazu | Ureo Egawa, Shin'ichi Himori, Chōko Iida | | |
| I Was Born, But... | Yasujirō Ozu | Tatsuo Saitō | Comedy drama | |
| Kokushi muso | Mansaku Itami | Shuichiro Atsumi, Junzaburō Ban, Chiezō Kataoka | | |
| Manmo kenkoku no reimei | Kenji Mizoguchi | Takako Irie, Eiji Nakano, Taisuke Matsumoto | | |
| Nasanunaka | Mikio Naruse | Yoshiko Okada, Shin'yō Nara, Yukiko Tsukuba | Drama | |
| Spring Comes from the Ladies | Yasujirō Ozu | Jiro Shirota, Tatsuo Saitō, Yukiko Inoue | | |
| Until the Day We Meet Again | Yasujirō Ozu | Yoshiko Okada, Joji Oka, Shin'yō Nara | | |
| Uzumaki | Hiroshi Innami | Shizuko Mori, Taisuke Matsumoto, Kenji Yuri | | |
| Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth | Yasujirō Ozu | Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tatsuo Saitō | Drama | |
| 1933 |||||
| Apart from You | Mikio Naruse | Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono | Drama | |
| Dragnet Girl | Yasujirō Ozu | Kinuyo Tanaka | Crime | |
| The Life of Bangaku | Sadao Yamanaka | | | Lost film |
| Nightly Dreams | Mikio Naruse | Sumiko Kurishima, Teruko Kojima | Drama | |
| Passing Fancy | Yasujirō Ozu | Takeshi Sakamoto | | |
| Wasei Kingu Kongu | Tatsuo Saitō | Yasuko Koizumi | | |
| The Water Magician | Kenji Mizoguchi | Takako Irie, Tokihiko Okada, Ichirō Sugai | | |
| 1934 |||||
| Aizō Tōge | Kenji Mizoguchi | Isuzu Yamada, Denmei Suzuki, Komako Hara | | |
| A Mother Should Be Loved | Yasujirō Ozu | Den Ohinata, Hideo Mitsui | Drama | |
| Our Neighbour Miss Yae | Yasujirō Shimazu | | Drama | |
| A Story of Floating Weeds | Yasujirō Ozu | Takeshi Sakamoto | Drama | |
| Street Without End | Mikio Naruse | Setsuko Shinobu, Akio Isono | Drama | |
| 1935 |||||
| The Girl in the Rumour | Mikio Naruse | Sachiko Chiba, Kamatara Fujiwara | Drama | |
| An Inn in Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | Takeshi Sakamoto, Yoshiko Okada | | |
| Kimiko | Mikio Naruse | | | |
| The Million Ryo Pot | Sadao Yamanaka | Denjiro Okochi | Comedy | |
| Orizuru Osen | Kenji Mizoguchi | Isuzu Yamada | | |
| The Village-Tattooed Man | Sadao Yamanaka | | | |
| Wife! Be Like a Rose! | Mikio Naruse | Sachiko Chiba, Sadao Maruyama | | First Japanese film to get a foreign release |
| 1936 |||||
| The Only Son | Yasujirō Ozu | Chishū Ryū | Drama | |
| Osaka Elegy | Kenji Mizoguchi | Isuzu Yamada Yoko Umemura | Drama | |
| Sisters of the Gion | Kenji Mizoguchi | Isuzu Yamada | Drama | |
| 1937 |||||
| Avalanche | Mikio Naruse | | | |
| The Daughter of the Samurai | Mansaku Itami Arnold Fanck | Setsuko Hara Sesshu Hayakawa | Drama | Japanese/German production |
| Humanity and Paper Balloons | Sadao Yamanaka | Chojuro Kawarazaki | Drama | |
| Kagirinaki Zenshin | Tomu Uchida | Isamu Kosugi | | |
| What Did the Lady Forget? | Yasujirō Ozu | Tatsuo Saitō, Sumiko Kurishima | Comedy drama | |
| 1938 |||||
| Ah, My Home Town | Kenji Mizoguchi | Fumiko Yamaji, Masao Shimizu, Seiichi Kato | — | |
| Five Scouts | Tomotaka Tasaka | Hikaru Hoshi Ichirō Izawa | | |
| King Kong Appears in Edo | Soya Kumagai | Eizaburo Matsumoto | | (Possibly) Japan's first kaiju film. |
| 1939 |||||
| Numana heigakko | Tadashi Imai | | Drama | |
| The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums | Kenji Mizoguchi | Kakuo Mori | Romantic drama | |
| Tsuchi | Tomu Uchida | | | |