| Bonta No Kekkon Ya | Koji Chino | — | Japan |
| Front Row Life | Tatsumi Kumashiro | pink film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Genocide | Kazui Nihonmatsu | science fiction film | Japan |
| Hot Spring Geisha | Teruo Ishii | erotic film | Japan |
| The Notorious Concubines | Kōji Wakamatsu | drama film, erotic film | Japan |
| Rebellion of Japan | Heinosuke Gosho | drama film | Japan |
| Samurai Wolf II | Hideo Gosha | drama film, action film, adventure film | Japan |
| The Embryo Hunts in Secret | Kōji Wakamatsu | pink film, drama film, pornographic film | Japan |
| Tokyo Drifter | Seijun Suzuki | film noir, action film, crime film | Japan |
| Yojōhan monogatari: Shōfu shino | Masashige Narusawa | pink film, erotic film | Japan |
| Gamera, the Giant Monster | Noriaki Yuasa | kaiju, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film | Japan |
| Red Beard | Akira Kurosawa | drama film, Jidaigeki | Japan |
| Shape of Night | Noboru Nakamura | drama film | Japan |
| Three Outlaw Samurai | Hideo Gosha | drama film, samurai cinema | Japan |
| Yearning | Mikio Naruse | drama film | Japan |
| Bad Girl | Kirio Urayama | drama film | Japan |
| High and Low | Akira Kurosawa | drama film, film noir, police procedural, neo-noir, film based on a novel | Japan |
| Warring Clans | Kihachi Okamoto | pirate film, Jidaigeki | Japan |
| Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki | Hiroshi Inagaki | samurai cinema, historical film | Japan |
| Harakiri | Masaki Kobayashi | drama film, samurai cinema, historical film, action film, historical drama | Japan |
| The Tale of Zatoichi Continues | Kazuo Mori | adventure film | Japan |
| Miyamoto Musashi | Tomu Uchida | drama film | Japan |
| Good for Nothing | Yoshishige Yoshida | drama film | Japan |
| Rickshaw Man | Hiroshi Inagaki | comedy film, action film, kung fu film | Japan |
| Scar Yosaburo | Daisuke Itō | drama film, action film | Japan |
| Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender | Shūe Matsubayashi | war film | Japan |
| Nichiren to Mōko Daishūrai | Kunio Watanabe | war film | Japan |
| The Ballad of Narayama | Keisuke Kinoshita | drama film | Japan |
| Yogoreta Nikutai Seijo | Michiyoshi Doi | LGBTQ-related film | Japan |
| Keisatsu Nikki | Seiji Hisamatsu | drama film | Japan |
| The Crucified Lovers | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| Kimi no Na wa | Hideo Ōba | drama fiction | Japan |
| Mother | Mikio Naruse | drama film | Japan |
| Portrait of Madame Yuki | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| Flame of My Love | Kenji Mizoguchi | romance film, drama film | Japan |
| Gokumontō | Sadatsugu Matsuda | — | Japan |
| Women of the Night | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| The Love of the Actress Sumako | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| War and Peace | Satsuo Yamamoto | drama film | Japan |
| No Regrets for Our Youth | Akira Kurosawa | drama film | Japan |
| Kato hayabusa sento-tai | Kajirō Yamamoto | drama film, war film | Japan |
| The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum | Kenji Mizoguchi | drama film | Japan |
| Avalanche | Mikio Naruse | romance film, drama film | Japan |