| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 1942
|
| Hawai Mare oki kaisen |
Kajiro Yamamoto |
Susumu Fujita, Setsuko Hara |
Propaganda |
|
| 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
|
| Momotarō no Umiwashi |
Mitsuyo Seo |
|
Propaganda Animation |
|
| 1944
|
| Army |
Keisuke Kinoshita |
Chishū Ryū, Kinuyo Tanaka |
Drama |
|
| Miyamoto Musashi |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Kinuyo Tanaka |
Jidaigeki |
|
| 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 |
|
| Josei no Shori |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiko Kuwano |
Drama |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 1948
|
| Drunken Angel |
Akira Kurosawa |
Toshirō Mifune |
Crime drama |
|
| A Hen in the Wind |
Yasujirō Ozu |
Kinuyo Tanaka |
Drama |
|
| President and a female clerk
|
Hideo Ôba
|
Taiji Tonoyama
|
Comedy
|
music by Akira Ifukube
|
| 1949
|
| Aoi sanmyaku |
Tadashi Imai |
Setsuko Hara, Ryō Ikebe |
Comedy drama |
|
| Jakoman and Tetsu |
Senkichi Taniguchi |
Toshiro Mifune |
|
|
| Jigoku no kifujin |
Motoyoshi Oda |
Michiyo Kogure, Eitaro Ozawa, Ichiro Ryuzaki |
— |
|
| 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, Ryō Ikebe |
Comedy drama |
|
