List of Japanese films of 1938
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A list of films produced in Japan in 1938 (see 1938 in film).
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January | The Skull Coin | Yoshiro Tsuji | Kanjūrō Arashi, Kensaku Hara, Takashi Shimura | Jidaigeki | ||
| 2 January | Shanghai | Fumio Kamei | Documentary, War | |||
| 7 January | Five Scouts | Tomotaka Tasaka | Hikaru Hoshi, Ichirō Izawa | War, adventure | Winner of the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year.[1] | |
| 22 January | Mito Kōmon Manyu-ki | Kunio Watanabe | Utaemon Ichikawa, Ryūtarō Ōtomo, Shin Tokudaiji | Jidaigeki | ||
| 1 February | Subterranean Heat | Eisuke Takizawa | Mitsugu Fujii, Chieko Takehisa, Sadao Maruyama | Jidaigeki | ||
| 2 February | The Giant | Mansaku Itami | Setsuko Hara, Yoshio Kosugi, Denjirō Ōkōchi | Historical drama | ||
| 17 February | Queen of the Wind | Yasushi Sasaki | Kaneko Fujiwara, Kiyoko Hara, Kōichi Itō, Fumiko Katsuragi | Drama | ||
| 20 February | Nanking | Keiji Matsuzaki | Documentary, War | |||
| 1 March | The Abe Clan | Hisatora Kumagai | Jidaigeki | |||
| 11 March | Rainbow Hill | Toshio Ōtani | Hideko Takamine, Akira Kishii, Chizuko Kanda | Comedy | ||
| 15 March | Kurama Tengu | Masahiro Makino, Sadatsugu Matsuda | Kanjūrō Arashi, Kunitaro Bando, Tokumaro Dan, Takashi Shimura | Jidaigeki | ||
| 17 March | Crybaby Apprentice | Shirō Toyoda | Mitsugu Fujii, Isamu Yamaguchi, Reiji Ichiki, Yumeko Aizome | Drama | ||
| 18 March | King Kong Appears in Edo | Soya Kumagai | Eizaburo Matsumoto | (Possibly) Japan's first kaiju film. | ||
| 31 March | Chushingura | Masahiro Makino, Tomiyasu Ikeda | Chiezō Kataoka, Tsumasaburō Bandō, Kanjūrō Arashi, Takashi Shimura | Jidaigeki | ||
| 1 April | So Goes My Love | Yasujirō Shimazu | Shūji Sano, Sanae Takasugi, Mieko Takamine | Drama | ||
| 5 April | King Kong Appears in Edo: The Episode of Gold | Sôya Kumagai | Action | |||
| 14 April | Hotaru no hikari | Yasushi Sasaki | Michiko Kuwano, Sanae Takasugi, Mieko Takamine | Romance, Drama | ||
| 1 May | Tojuro’s Love | Kajirō Yamamoto | Kazuo Hasegawa, Takako Irie, Kamatari Fujiwara, Osamu Takizawa, Hideko Takamine | Drama | ||
| 18 May | Children of the Sun | Yutaka Abe | Den Obinata, Yumeko Aizome, Kōji Mitsui, Izumi Hara | Drama | ||
| 1 June | Ōma no tsuji | Eisuke Takizawa | Chōjūrō Kawarasaki, Suemon Nakamura, Matsunosuke Onoe | Jidaigeki | ||
| 11 June | Pastoral Symphony | Satsuo Yamamoto | Setsuko Hara, Ryo Sayama, Minoru Takada | Drama | ||
| 15 June | Fallen Blossoms | Tamizō Ishida | Ranko Hanai, Reiko Minakami, Rikie Sanjō | Horror | [2] | |
| 17 June | Taiko’s Rising in the World | Hiroshi Inagaki | Kanjūrō Arashi, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Gorō Kawabe | Jidaigeki | ||
| 21 June | Enoken's Hokaibo | Torajirō Saitō | Ken'ichi Enomoto, Mitsuko Hirokawa, Shojiro Ogasawara | Comedy | ||
| 1 July | Mother and Child | Minoru Shibuya | Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Shin Saburi | Drama | ||
| 7 July | The Masseurs and a Woman | Hiroshi Shimizu | Mieko Takamine, Shin Tokudaiji, Shinichi Himori, Shin Saburi | Drama | [3] | |
| 21 July | Kaidan Oiwa Yakusha | Kanji Suganuma, Jun Ozaki | Kiyoshi Sawada, Fujiko Fukamizu, Michisaburō Segawa | Horror, Drama | ||
| 21 August | Composition Class | Kajirō Yamamoto | Hideko Takamine, Masaru Kodaka, Shiro Mizutani | Drama | [4] | |
| 15 September | The Tree of Love | Hiromasa Nomura | Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Shin Saburi, Kenji Oyama, Mitsuko Mito | Romance, drama | [5] | |
| 21 September | A Pebble by the Wayside | Tomotaka Tasaka | Akihiko Katayama, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Hisako Takihana | Drama | [6] | |
| 29 September | Family Diary | Hiroshi Shimizu | Ken Uehara, Michiko Kuwano, Shin Saburi | [7] | ||
| 29 September | Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro | Mikio Naruse | Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada, Katamari Fujiwara | Drama | [8] | |
| 6 October | Ah, My Home Town | Kenji Mizoguchi | Fumiko Yamaji, Masao Shimizu, Seiichi Kato | — | [9] | |
| 3 November | The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen | Kiyohiko Ushihara | Sumiko Suzuki, Mitsuko Mori, Kinue Utagawa | Horror | [10] | |
| 9 November | Nightingale | Shirō Toyoda | Yōtarō Katsumi, Ko Mihashi, Haruko Sugimura | Drama | ||
| 30 November | Chocolate and Soldiers | Takeshi Sato | Kamatari Fujiwara, Kiyoshi Hosoi, Yuko Ichinose, Hideko Takamine | War, Drama | ||
| 1 December | Yaji and Kita's Travelling Diary | Masahiro Makino | Chiezō Kataoka, Kyoji Sugi, Takashi Shimura | Comedy, Adventure | ||
| 29 December | Enoken's Surprising Life | Kajirō Yamamoto | Ken'ichi Enomoto, Noboru Kiritachi, Mitsuko Hirokawa, Denjirō Ōkōchi | Comedy | ||
| 31 December | Monster Cat Akabe Daimyojin | Kazuo Mori | Sumiko Suzuki, Kinue Utagawa, Omenosuke Ichikawa | Horror | ||
