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 [1] 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 [2] Tojin Okichi Kenji Mizoguchi Kaichi Yamamoto, Koji Shima Drama Walk Cheerfully Yasujirō Ozu Satoko Date , Hiroko Kawasaki Drama [3] 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 [4] 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 [5] 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 [6] Nightly Dreams Mikio Naruse Sumiko Kurishima , Teruko Kojima Drama [7] 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 [8] A Story of Floating Weeds Yasujirō Ozu Takeshi Sakamoto Drama Street Without End Mikio Naruse Setsuko Shinobu , Akio Isono Drama [9] 1935 The Girl in the Rumour Mikio Naruse Sachiko Chiba , Kamatara Fujiwara Drama [10] 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 [11] 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 [12] 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 [14] The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Kenji Mizoguchi Kakuo Mori Romantic drama Tsuchi Tomu Uchida 
