| Creepy | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | thriller film | Japan |
| The Hidden Blade | Yōji Yamada | drama film, samurai cinema, action film | Japan |
| What Did the Lady Forget? | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film | Japan |
| Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film, silent film | Japan |
| Talk of the Town Tora-san | Yōji Yamada | comedy film | Japan |
| Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare | Junya Satō | drama film | Japan |
| The Living Skeleton | Kōki Matsuno | horror film | Japan |
| Cash Calls Hell | Hideo Gosha | action film | Japan |
| The Scarlet Camellia | Yoshitarō Nomura | Jidaigeki | Japan |
| Farewell to Dream | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| Christ in Bronze | Minoru Shibuya | — | — |
| The Golden Demon 1937 | Hiroshi Shimizu | — | Japan |
| Dragnet Girl | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film, silent film, crime film | Japan |
| One Fine Spring Day | Hur Jin-ho | romance film | South Korea |
| The Happiness of the Katakuris | Takashi Miike | comedy film, comedy horror, musical film | Japan |
| Good Men, Good Women | Hou Hsiao-Hsien | drama film | Japan, Taiwan |
| Hiruko the Goblin | Shinya Tsukamoto | horror film | Japan |
| The Catch | Shinji Sōmai | drama film | Japan |
| Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron | Hideo Gosha | samurai cinema, Jidaigeki | Japan |
| The Notorious Concubines | Kōji Wakamatsu | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| Pale Flower | Masahiro Shinoda | drama film, film noir, crime film | Japan |
| Good for Nothing | Yoshishige Yoshida | drama film | Japan |
| Late Autumn | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film | Japan |
| Night and Fog in Japan | Nagisa Ōshima | drama film | Japan |
| Kimi no Na wa | Hideo Ōba | drama fiction | Japan |
| What Is Your Name? Part II | Hideo Ōba | romance film, drama film | Japan |
| Carmen Comes Home | Zenzo Matsuyama, Keisuke Kinoshita, Masaki Kobayashi | musical film | Japan |
| The Idiot | Akira Kurosawa | drama film | Japan |
| Women of the Night | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| The Love of the Actress Sumako | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| A Mother Should be Loved | Yasujirō Ozu | drama film, silent film | Japan |
| The Dancing Girl of Izu | Heinosuke Gosho | silent film | Japan |
| Wasei Kingu Kongu | Torajirō Saitō | fantasy film, silent film, parody film | Japan |
| Ginza no Yanagi | Heinosuke Gosho | — | Empire of Japan |
| The Neighbor's Wife and Mine | Heinosuke Gosho | — | — |
| Young Miss | Yasujirō Ozu | silent film | Japan |
| Dreams of Youth | Yasujirō Ozu | — | — |