List of Japanese films of 1973

This is a list of films released in Japan in 1973. In that year, Japan had 2,530 movie theaters, with 1,332 screening only domestic films and 556 showing both domestic and imported films.^[1] A total of 405 Japanese films were released in 1973.^[2] Domestic films grossed a total of 19.458 million yen that year.^[2]

Japanese films released in 1973

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
Akaitori nigeta	Toshihachi Fujita	Yoshio Harada, Kaori Momoi, Masaaki Daimon	—	[3]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity	Kinji Fukasaku	Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko	—	[4]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima	Kinji Fukasaku	Bunta Sugawara, Sonny Chiba, Meiko Kaji	—	[5]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War	Kinji Fukasaku	Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase	—	[6]
Belladonna of Sadness	Eiichi Yamamoto		—	Animated film[7]
Bishamonten bojo	Michiyoshi Doi	Hideo Sunazuka, Hisaya Morishige, Junzaburo Ban	—	[8]
Esu o nerae! Tenisu okoku no Shinderera	Osamu Dezaki		—	Animated short[9]
Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable	Shunya Itō	Meiko Kaji, Mikio Narita, Koji Nanbara	—	[10]
Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701's Grudge Song	Yasuharu Hasebe	Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Toshiyuki Hosokawa	—	[11]
Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture	Teruo Ishii	Reiko Ike	Pinky Violent	[citation needed]
Flying At 'Ya, Android Kikaider	Hidetoshi Kitamura	Daisuke Ban	Tokusatsu	[citation needed]
Godzilla vs. Megalon	Jun Fukuda	Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Robert Dunham	—	[12]
Gokiburi deka	Tsugunobu Kotani	Tetsuya Watari, Takeo Jii, Masaaki Daimon	—	[13]
Golgo 13 (film)
Hangyako no hoshu	Yukihiro Sawada	Yujiro Ishihara, Tetsuya Watari, Mieko takamine	—	[3]
Hanzo the Razor – The Snare	Yasuzo Masumura	Shintaro Katsu, Kō Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa	—	[14]
Hatachi no genten	Kenjiro Omori	Yuriko Sumi, Takeo Jii, Masaaki Daimon	—	[15]
Jyanguru Kurobe	Osamu Dezaki		—	Animated short[3]
Kagaku ninja tai Gacchaman–Densi kaiju Renjiraa	Hisayuki Toriumi		—	Animated short[9]
Kagaku ninja tai Gacchaman–Hinotori tai hikuma	Hisayuki Toriumi		—	Animated short[16]
Kamen Rider V3	Minoru Yamada	Hiroshi Miyauchi	Tokusatsu	[citation needed]
Kamen Rider V3 vs. the Destron Monsters	Minoru Yamada	Hiroshi Miyauchi	Tokusatsu	[citation needed]
Koju hosho	Kazuo Inoue	Hisaya Morishige, Etsuko Ichimura, Akira Kawaguchi	—	[15]
Kokosei burai hikae–Kanjiru u~Muramasa	Mio Ezaki	Masaaki Daimon, Yachiyo Otori, Toru Abe	—	[13]
Kokosei burai hikae–Tsuki no Muramasa	Mio Ezaki	Masaaki Daimon, Yuriko Hishimi, Sayoko Kato	—	[8]
Konketsuji Rika–Hama gure komoriuta	Kozaburo Yoshimura	Rika Aoki, Jiro Kawarazaki, Kunie Tanaka	—	[13]
Konketsuji Rika–Hitori yuku sasuraitabi	Ko Nakahira	Rika Aoki, Ryunosuke Minegishi, Kaoru Hama	—	[8]
Lady Snowblood	Toshiya Fujita	Meiko Kaji, Akira Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa	Chanbara	[15]
Little Adventurer–Sotsugyo ryoko	Masanobu Deme	Mark Lester, Gerald Lancaster, Zhen Zhen	Family	[17]
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons	Kenji Misumi	Tomisaburo Wakayama, Michio Yasuda, Akihiro Tomikawa	—	[14]
Long Journey into Love	Masanobu Deme	Komaki Kurihara, Go Kato, Kyoko Maya	—	[16]
Mushukunin Mikogami no Jokichi–Tasogare ni senko ga tonda	Kazuo Ikehiro	Yoshio Harada, Isao Natsuyagi, Michiyo Yasuda	—	[8][16]
Mute Samurai				[citation needed]
Ningen kakumei	Toshio Masuda	Tetsuro Tamba, Shinsuke Ashida, Michiyo Aratama	—	[14]
Nippon kyokaden–Dai ichibu No azami/Dai nibu Aoi botan	Tai Kato	Yoko Maki, Tetsuya Watari, Kinya Kitaoji	—	[15]
Nippon sanjushi–Hakata obi shime ippon dokko no maki	Kihachi Okamoto	Keiju Kobayashi, Yusuke Okada, Mickey Yasukawa	—	[17]
Ōkami no monshō	Masashi Matsumoto	Taro Shigaki, Toshio Kurosawa, Akiko Aki	—	[14]
Omocha ya Ken-Chan–Yoso de wa iko	Yoshitaka Sone	Yasuyuki Miyawaki, Tomoko Nagaharu, Masaaki Maeda	—	[14]
Ōshō	Hiromichi Horikawa	Shintaro Katsu, Tamao Nakamura, Mikiko Otanashi	—	[8]
Panda • kopanda–Amefuri sakasu	Isao Takahata		—	Animated short[3]
The Petrified Forest	Masahiro Shinoda	Kenichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi	—	[14]
Rainboo Man–Satsujin Purofesshyonaru	Taku Nagano	Yasukuni Mizutani, Masao Murata, Megumi Ito	—	[16]
Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland	Yukihiro Sawada	Yuri Yamashina, Takeo Chii	—	[18]
Rise, Fair Sun	Kei Kumai	Tatsuya Nakadai, Kiny Kitaoji, Keiko Sekine	—	[15]
Saeteru yatsuya	Yasuhiro Yoshimatsu	Kiyotaka Mitsuki, Ichiro Ogura, Rumi Matsumoto	—	[8]
Sakura no daimon	Kenji Misumi	Tomisaburo Wakayama, Minoru Oki, Hiroshi Sekiguchi	—	[8]
Samurai jyaiantsu–Hoeru banbaban	Tadao Nagahara		—	Animated short[9]
Sarariiman jingi	Tsugunobu Kotani	Osami Nabe, Kunie Tanaka, Raita Ryu	—	[15]
Senso o shiranai kodomatachi	Masashi Matsumoto	Yoshiki Shimamura, Sayoko Kato, Wakako Sakai	—	[8]
Sex & Fury	Noribumi Suzuki	Reiko Ike, Christina Lindberg, Masataka Naruse	Action	[19]
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom	Noribumi Suzuki	Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike	Thriller	[20]
Tidal Wave	Shiro Moritani	Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka, Tetsuro Tamba	—	[21]
Tobidase! Seishun	Masahiro Takase	Takenori Murano, Shoji Ishibashi, Ichiro Arishima	—	[3]
Tora-san Loves an Artist	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Chieko Misaki	—	[22]
Tora-san's Forget Me Not	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Chieko Misaki	—	[23]
Tsugaru Folk Song	Kōichi Saitō			[citation needed]
Twilight Years	Shiro Toyoda	Hisaya Morishige, Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura	—	[17]
Urutoraman Tarou–Moero! Urutora 6 kyodai	Kazuo Sagawa	Saburo Shinoda, Takahiko Tono, Shusuke Tsumura	—	[9]
Urutoraman Tarou–Urutora no haha wa taiyo no yo ni	Eizo Yamagiwa	Saburo Shinoda, Akira Nagoya, Takahiko Higashino	—	[16]
The World of Geisha	Tatsumi Kumashiro	Junko Miyashita	Roman porno	Kinema Junpo's 6th best Japanese film of the year
Yaju gari	Eizo Sugawa	Hiroshi Fujioka, Junzaburo Ban, Mayumi Nagisa	—	[15]
Yama nezumi Rokkii Chyakku–Ganbare Chatara	Masaharu Endo, Tadamichi Koga		—	Animated short[9]
Za • Gokiburi	Tsugunobu Kotani	Hiroshi Fujioka, Junzaburo Ban, Mayumi Nagisa	—	[9]
Zatoichi's Conspiracy	Kimiyoshi Yasuda	Shintaro Katsu, Eiji Okada, Kei Satō	—	[24]

See also

• 1973 in Japan
• 1973 in Japanese television