List of Japanese films of 1933
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A list of films produced in Japan in 1933 (see 1933 in film).
Film releases
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 January | Tange Sazen - Dai-ippen | Daisuke Itō | Denjirō Ōkōchi, Katsutaro Bando, Kunitaro Sawamura | Jidaigeki | ||
| 2 February | The Dancing Girl of Izu | Heinosuke Gosho | Kinuyo Tanaka, Den Obinata, Tokuji Kobayashi | Drama, Romance | [1] | |
| 14 January | The Bride Talks in Her Sleep | Heinosuke Gosho | Kinuyo Tanaka, Chōko Iida, Tatsuo Saitō, Tokuji Kobayashi | Comedy | ||
| 9 February | Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | Yoshiko Okada, Ureo Egawa, Kinuyo Tanaka, Shin'yō Nara, Chishū Ryū | Drama | [2] | |
| 15 March | Island Girl | Hôtei Nomura | Yukichi Iwata, Ryoichi Takeuchi, Ureo Egawa | Drama | ||
| 1 April | Apart from You | Mikio Naruse | Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Akio Isono | Drama | ||
| 27 April | Dragnet Girl | Yasujirō Ozu | Kinuyo Tanaka | Crime | ||
| 27 April | Hotta Hayato | Daisuke Itō | Shinpachirō Asaka, Ryōsuke Kagawa, Chiezō Kataoka | Jidaigeki | Considered mostly lost | [3] |
| 4 May | Tipsy Life | Sotoji Kimura | Musical, Comedy | |||
| 11 May | A Woman Crying in Spring | Hiroshi Shimizu | Den Obinata, Akiko Chihaya, Yoshiko Okada | Drama | [4] | |
| 1 June | Japanese Girls at the Harbor | Hiroshi Shimizu | Michiko Oikawa, Yukiko Inoue, Ureo Egawa | Romance, Drama | [5] | |
| 1 June | The Water Magician | Kenji Mizoguchi | Takako Irie, Tokihiko Okada, Ichirō Sugai | |||
| 8 June | Every-Night Dreams | Mikio Naruse | Sumiko Kurishima, Teruko Kojima | Drama | [6] | |
| 15 June | Gion Shigure | Minoru Inuzuka | Shirô Izome, Ranko Hanai, Eiji Takagi, Togo Yamamoto, Mantarō Ushio | |||
| 15 June | The Life of Bangaku | Sadao Yamanaka | Lost film | [7] | ||
| 13 July | Two Lanterns | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Jidaigeki | |||
| 10 August | Bored Hatamoto on a Rampage | Eiichi Koishi | Utaemon Ichikawa, Kokuten Kōdō, Ryuzo Takei, Jinichi Amano | Jidaigeki, Action | ||
| 17 August | The Layabout and Seabathing | Hiromasa Nomura | Akio Isono, Kōji Mitsui, Shozaburo Abe, Yukiko Inoue | Drama | ||
| 24 August | Musume juroku | Toshio Ōtani | Fujiko Fukamizu, Shintarô Takiguchi, Eiji Takagi | [8] | ||
| 31 August | The Feast of Gion | Kenji Mizoguchi | Shizuko Mori, Tokihiko Okada, Sumiko Suzuki, Ichirō Sugai | Romance | Considered lost | [9] |
| 7 September | Passing Fancy | Yasujirō Ozu | Takeshi Sakamoto | Winner of the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year[10]. | ||
| 21 September | A Man with a Married Woman’s Hairdo | Mikio Naruse | Mitsugu Fujii, Sumiko Mizukubo, Jun Arai, Akio Nomura | Drama | Considered lost | [11] |
| 5 October | Wasei Kingu Kongu | Torajirō Saitō | Yasuko Koizumi, Takeshi Sakamoto | [12] | ||
| 12 October | Genpei the Carp | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Kazuo Hasegawa, Toshiko Iizuka, Jushiro Kobayashi | Jidaigeki | ||
| 19 October | Happy Times | Hiromasa Nomura | Ureo Egawa, Hiroko Kawasaki, Tatsuo Saitō, Mitsugu Fujii | Drama | ||
| 31 October | The Boss’s Son at College | Hiroshi Shimizu | Mitsugu Fujii, Haruo Takeda, Yoshiko Tsubouchi | |||
| 9 November | Love | Heinosuke Gosho | Yoshiko Okada, Tadao Watanabe, Tokuji Kobayashi | Drama | ||
| 30 November | Police Officer | Tomu Uchida | Eiji Nakano, Isamu Kosugi, Taisuke Matsumoto | Crime, Drama | [13] | |
