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An incomplete list of films produced in Japan ordered by year in the 1920s. For an A-Z of films see Category:Japanese films. Also see cinema of Japan.
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An incomplete list of films produced in Japan ordered by year in the 1920s. For an A-Z of films see Category:Japanese films. Also see cinema of Japan.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 1926 | ||||||
| Kurutta Ippeji ( A Page of Madness ) | Kinugasa Teinosuke | Masao Inoue | 24 September | |||
| Storm of Passion | Seiichi Kamei | Teruko Asahi, Momoko Ashiya | ||||
| 1927 | ||||||
| Blood of Penitence | Yasujirō Ozu | [ citation needed ] | ||||
| 1928 | ||||||
| Edo Sangokushi (The Three Patriots of Edo) | Seika Shiba | |||||
| Jujiro (Crossways) | Kinugasa Teinosuke | 11 May | ||||
| Kurama Tengu: Kyōfu Jidai | Teppei Yamaguchi | Kanjuro Arashi, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Takasaburo Nakamura, Tokusho Arashi | ||||
| Kurama Tengu | Teppei Yamaguchi | Kanjuro Arashi, Takesaburo Nakamura, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Tokusho Arashi | ||||
| Wakodo no yume | Yasujirō Ozu | Tatsuo Saitō, Nobuko Wakaba | Comedy | [59] | ||
| 1929 | ||||||
| Daigaku wa detakeredo | Yasujirō Ozu | Minoru Takada, Kinuyo Tanaka | Comedy | [60] | ||
| Days of Youth | Yasujirō Ozu | Ichiro Yuki, Tatsuo Saitō | Comedy | |||
| Monkey Sun | ||||||
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