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A list of films produced in Japan in 1937 (see 1937 in film).
| Opening |
Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
Ref
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| 14 January |
Song of the Flower Basket |
Heinosuke Gosho |
Kinuyo Tanaka, Shūji Sano, Shin Tokudaiji |
Drama |
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| 21 January |
A Woman's Sorrows |
Mikio Naruse |
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Drama |
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| 4 February |
The Daughter of the Samurai |
Mansaku Itami, Arnold Fanck |
Setsuko Hara, Sesshu Hayakawa |
Drama |
Japanese/German production |
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| 11 February |
Saga of the Vagabonds, Part One: Tiger and Wolf |
Eisuke Takizawa |
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Jidaigeki |
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| 3 March |
What Did the Lady Forget? |
Yasujirō Ozu |
Tatsuo Saitō, Sumiko Kurishima |
Comedy drama |
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| 1 May |
A Star Athlete |
Hiroshi Shimizu |
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Comedy, Drama |
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| 20 May |
Don’t Tell Your Wife About It |
Minoru Shibuya |
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Comedy |
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| 10 June |
The Golden Demon |
Hiroshi Shimizu |
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Romance, Drama |
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| 17 June |
The Straits of Love and Hate |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
Fumiko Yamaji, Seizaburō Kawazu, Masao Shimizu |
Drama |
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| 1 July |
Avalanche |
Mikio Naruse |
Noboru Kiritachi, Ranko Edogawa, Hideo Saeki |
Drama |
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[1]
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| 1 July |
Forget Love for Now |
Hiroshi Shimizu |
Michiko Kuwano, Tomio Aoki, Shūji Sano, Setsuko Shinobu |
Drama |
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| 11 July |
Enoken’s Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way |
Kajirō Yamamoto |
Ken'ichi Enomoto, Zeko Nakamura, Teiichi Futamura |
Comedy |
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| 18 July |
The Trio’s Engagements |
Yasujirō Shimazu |
Shūji Sano, Ken Uehara, Shin Saburi, Mieko Takamine |
Romantic comedy |
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| 25 August |
Humanity and Paper Balloons |
Sadao Yamanaka |
Chojuro Kawarazaki |
Drama |
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| 1 October |
Learn from Experience, Part One |
Mikio Naruse |
Takako Irie |
Drama |
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| 8 October |
Young People |
Shirō Toyoda |
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Drama |
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| 3 November |
Kagirinaki Zenshin |
Tomu Uchida |
Isamu Kosugi |
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Winner of the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year[2]. |
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| 11 November |
Children in the Wind |
Hiroshi Shimizu |
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Drama |
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| 2 December |
The Lights of Asakusa |
Yasujirō Shimazu |
Ken Uehara, Mieko Takamine, Daijirō Natsukawa |
Drama |
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| 18 December |
Learn from Experience, Part Two |
Mikio Naruse |
Takako Irie |
Drama |
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| 31 December |
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba |
Hiroshi Inagaki, Masahiro Makino |
Tsumasaburō Bandō, Takashi Shimura, Tokumaro Dan |
Jidaigeki |
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- ^ "雪崩". JMDB (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ^ "1937年度キネマ旬報ベストテン". Cinema1987.org (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 July 2025.
- ^ "風の中の子供". JMDB (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 July 2025.
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