A list of films produced in Japan in 1939 (see 1939 in film).
Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
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4 January | Enoken's Shrewd Period | Kajirō Yamamoto | [1] | |||
7 January | Okayo's Preparedness | Yasujirō Shimazu | [2] | |||
11 January | Blizzard Ronin | Kondo Katsuhiko | [3] | |||
15 January | Honcho Monster Cat Story | Hôzô Nakajima | Horror | [4] | ||
28 January | Four Seasons of Children | Hiroshi Shimizu | Drama | [5] | ||
1 February | Old Songs | Tamizo Ishida | Drama | [6] | ||
1 February | Women at War | Yasushi Sasaki | War, drama | [7] | ||
15 February | Explosion! | Tomotaka Tasaka | Drama | [8] | ||
15 February | Southern Wind | Minoru Shibuya | Chishū Ryū | [9] | ||
21 February | Beautiful Departure | Satsuo Yamamoto | Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine | [10] | ||
21 February | Numazu Officer School | Tadashi Imai | War, drama | [11] | ||
11 March | The Whole Family Works | Mikio Naruse | Drama | [12] | ||
14 March | My Daughter's Only Wish | Torajirō Saitō | Hideko Takamine | [13] | ||
16 March | Tsukiyo Karasu | Kintaro Inoue | [14] | |||
20 March | Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei | Yutaka Abe | Hideko Takamine | [15] | ||
30 March | Noroi hi no gin neko | Kanenori Yamada | Horror | [16] | ||
March | Fighting Soldiers | Fumio Kamei | Documentary, war | [17] | ||
1 April | A Brother and His Younger Sister | Yasujirō Shimazu | Chishū Ryū | Drama | [18] | |
13 April | Earth | Tomu Uchida | Drama | Winner of the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year [19] . | [20] | |
13 April | Ie naki musume | Seiichi Ina | [21] | |||
13 April | Spring Thunder | Keisuke Sasaki | Chishū Ryū | [22] | ||
15 April | Yama to shojo | Minoru Matsui | [23] | |||
4 May | Maboroshi-jô no bakeneko | Seiji Suezaki | Horror | [24] | ||
5 May | Zoku aizen katsura | Hiromasa Nomura | [25] | |||
11 May | The Old Man of the Propeller | Kunio Watanabe | Drama, comedy | [26] | ||
20 May | Shanghai Landing Party | Hisatora Kumagai | Setsuko Hara | War, drama | [27] | |
21 May | Enoken's Kurama Tengu | Kondo Katsuhiko | Action, comedy | [28] | ||
25 May | Haha ni sasaguru uta | Seiichi Ina | Drama | [29] | ||
31 May | Ichiyo Higuchi | Kyōtarō Namiki | Hideko Takamine | Biopic, drama | [30] | |
1 June | New Woman Question and Answer | Yasushi Sasaki | Chishū Ryū | Drama | [31] | |
1 June | Shunjû ittôryû | Santaro Marune | Historical drama | [32] | ||
15 June | Weeds with Flowers | Hiroshi Shimizu | [33] | |||
17 June | Osanaki mono no hata | Takeshi Sato | [34] | |||
28 June | Iron Brothers | Kunio Watanabe | [35] | |||
6 July | Haha o tataeru uta | Kenkichi Hara | [36] | |||
9 July | The Fighting Firemen | Tamizo Ishida | Historical drama | [37] | ||
20 July | Five Siblings | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Drama | [38] | ||
July | Benkei vs. Ushikawa | Kenzō Masaoka | Animation, comedy, action | [39] | ||
1 August | Kaidan Kyôren onna shishô | Shigeru Kido | Horror | [40] | ||
10 August | Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu | Nobuo Nakagawa | Comedy | [41] | ||
10 August | Sincerity | Mikio Naruse | Drama | [42] | ||
20 August | Machi | Satsuo Yamamoto | Setsuko Hara | Drama | [43] | |
31 August | Lovers' Duet | Yasushi Sasaki | Drama | [44] | ||
19 September | Easy Alley | Kajirō Yamamoto | [45] | |||
19 September | Enoken no ganbari senjutsu | Nobuo Nakagawa | War | [46] | ||
19 September | Rivals | Nobuo Nakagawa | Comedy | [47] | ||
10 October | The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums | Kenji Mizoguchi | Historical drama | [48] | ||
12 October | Tanuki goten | Keigo Kimura | [49] | |||
13 October | Surging Waves | Kenkichi Hara | [50] | |||
14 October | Mud and Soldiers | Tomotaka Tasaka | War | [51] | ||
21 October | Flower Picking Diary | Tamizo Ishida | Hideko Takamine | [52] | ||
21 October | The Day Before | Ryō Hagiwara | Hideko Takamine | Historical drama | [53] | |
31 October | Women in Tokyo | Osamu Fushimizu | Setsuko Hara | [54] | ||
9 November | Daini no shuppatsu | Iseo Hirukawa | [55] | |||
30 November | Sea Raiding Unit | Kichiro Tsuji | Historical drama | [56] | ||
30 November | Song of the White Orchid | Kunio Watanabe | Yoshiko Yamaguchi | Drama | [57] | |
1 December | Warm Current | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Drama | [58] | ||
7 December | Devoted Servant Naosuke | Saburo Kunikida | [59] | |||
14 December | Singing Lovebirds | Masahiro Makino | [60] | |||
17 December | Mother is Strong | Keisuke Sasaki | Chishū Ryū | [61] | ||
20 December | Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki | Nobuo Nakagawa | Hideko Takamine | Action, historical | [62] | |
29 December | Enoken's Yaji and Kita | Nobuo Nakagawa | Historical, comedy | [63] | ||
29 December | Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year | Torajirō Saitō | [64] | |||
Revenge of Wronged Souls | Toshio Ōtani | [65] | ||||
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