A list of films produced in Japan in 1938 (see 1938 in film).
Film releases 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 ScoutsTomotaka TasakaHikaru Hoshi, Ichirō Izawa War, adventure Winner of the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year. 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 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 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 15 September The Tree of Love Hiromasa Nomura Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Uehara, Shin Saburi, Kenji Oyama, Mitsuko Mito Romance, drama 21 September A Pebble by the Wayside Tomotaka Tasaka Akihiko Katayama, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Hisako Takihana Drama 29 September Family Diary Hiroshi Shimizu Ken Uehara, Michiko Kuwano, Shin Saburi 29 September Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro Mikio Naruse Kazuo Hasegawa, Isuzu Yamada, Katamari Fujiwara Drama 6 October Ah, My Home TownFumiko Yamaji, Masao Shimizu, Seiichi Kato 3 November The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen Kiyohiko Ushihara Sumiko Suzuki, Mitsuko Mori, Kinue Utagawa Horror 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
See also 1938 in Japan
References
External links
Japanese Movie Database's 1938 list