List of Japanese films of 1970
A list of films released in Japan in 1970 (see 1970 in film).
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The All-Out Game | Akira Okazaki | Kimisaburo Onogawa, Saburo Shindo, Kei Wakakura | — | |
| Alleycat Rock: Female Boss | Yasuharu Hasebe | Meiko Kaji, Akiko Wada, Kōji Wada | — | |
| The Ambitious | Daisuke Ito | Kinnosuke Nakaura, Toshiro Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi | — | |
| Atakku No. 1 | Eiji Okabe, Fumio Kurokawa | — | — | Animated feature |
| Atakku No. 1 - Namida no kaiten resibu | Eiji Okabe, Fumio Kurokawa | — | — | Animated feature |
| Atakku No. 1 - Namida no sekai senshuken | Masaaki Okuma | — | — | Animated feature |
| Batsugun joshi kousei-16 sai wa kanjichau | Takeshi Matsumori | Yoko Naito, Kyoko Yoshizawa, Toshio Kurosawa | Melodrama | |
| Batsugun joshikousei-Sotto shitoite 16 sai | Takeshi Matsumori | Kyoko Yoshizawa, Toshio Kurosawa, Yosuke Natsuki | Comedy | |
| Blind Woman's Curse | Teruo Ishii | Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Makoto Satō | Crime | |
| City of Beasts | Jun Fukuda | Toshio Kurosawa, Rentarō Mikuni, Noriko Takahashi | — | |
| The Creature Called Man | Kiyoshi Nishimura | Yūzō Kayama, Jiro Tamiya, Mariko Kaga | — | |
| Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive | Hirokazu Ichimura | Yoko Matsuyama, Yuki Meguro, Shinji Hotta | — | |
| Cruel Female Love Suicide | Shōgorō Nishimura | Annu Mari, Sanae Ohori, Jirō Okazaki | — | |
| Dodes'ka-den | Akira Kurosawa | Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Kazuo Kato | Drama | |
| Duel at Ezo | Kengo Furusawa | Yūzō Kayama, Rentarō Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho | — | |
| Five Gents Fly to Taiwan | Shue Matsubayashi | Hisaya Morishige, Daisuke Katō, Hiroshi Sekiguchi | — | |
| Five Gents and a Kuniang | Shue Matsubayashi | Hisaya Morishige, Keiju Kobayashi, Daisuke Katō | — | |
| Forbidden Affair | Masanobu Deme | Shima Iwashita, Shiro Mifune, Takashi Kanda | — | |
| Gamera vs. Jiger | Noriaki Yuasa | Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy | Action, science fiction | |
| Gakuensai no yoru-Amai keikun | Hiromichi Horikawa | Keiko Torii, Naoki Tachibana, Yoshiro Uchida | Drama | |
| Get Your Sky! Young Guy! | Tsugunobu Kotani | Yūzō Kayama, Wakako Sakai, Kunie Tanaka | Musical romance | |
| Hira hira shain-Yuhi-kun | Katsushin Ishida | Osami Nabe, Toshio Kurosawa, Mie Hama | Comedy | |
| Hira hira shain-Yuhi-kun-Garu hanto no maki | Katsushin Ishida | Osami Nabe, Yuki Shirono, Tonpei Hidari | — | |
| History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess | Shohei Imamura | Emiko Akaza, Etusko Akaza, Chieko Akaza | Documentary | |
| Kigeki dokkiri daitoso | Katsumi Iwauchi | Masaaki Sakai, Noriyuki Inoue, Bunjaku Han | Comedy | |
| Kigeki ganbare! Nihon danji | Katsushin Ishida | Takuya Fujioka, Shoichi Ozawa, Yumi Shirakawa | Comedy | |
| Kigeki makete tamakura | Takashi Tsuboshima | Kei Tani, Mie Hama, Hideo Sunazuka | Comedy | |
| Kigeki migimuke hidari! | Yoichi Maeda | Masaaki Sakai, Noriyuki Inoue, The Tigers | Comedy | |
| Kigeki otoko urimasu | Kiyoshi Nishimura | Takuya Fujioka, Mitsuko Kusabue, Sanae Nakahara | Comedy | |
| Konchyu monogatari-Minashigo Hattchi | Ippei Kuri | — | — | Animated short |
| Kureejii no nagurikomi shimizu minato | Takashi Tsuboshima | Hitoshi Ueki, Kei Tani, Hajime Hana | — | |
| Kyojin no Hoshi-Dairigu boru | Tadao Nagahama | — | — | Animated feature |
| Kyojin no Hoshi-Shuku mei no taiketsu | Tadao Nagasawa | — | — | Animated feature |
| Live Today, Die Tomorrow! | Kaneto Shindo | Daijiro Harada, Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi | — | |
| Love's Great Risk | Susumu Hani | Pinky and Killers, Shigeru Oya, Naomi Sagara | Musical comedy | |
| Machibuse | Hiroshi Inagaki | Toshiro Mifune, Shintaro Katsu, Kinnosuke Nakamura | — | |
| The Militarists | Hiromichi Horikawa | Keiju Kobayashi, Yūzō Kayama, Toshiro Mifune | — | |
| Minikui ahiro no ko | Kazuhiko Watanabe | — | — | Puppet animated short film |
| Nippon ichi no no warunori otoko | Takashi Tsuboshima | Hitoshi Ueki, Cha Kato, Kei Tani | — | |
| Nippon ichi no yakuza otoko | Kengo Furusawa | Hitoshi Ueki, Yoko Tsukasa, Yukiko Kobayashi | Comedy | |
| Odd Affinity | Kaneto Shindo | Nobuko Otowa, Kiwako Taichi, Jiro Omaru | — | |
| Oiroke dochu-Kimyo na Nakama | Susumu Kodama | Yosuke Natsuki, Yoichi Hayashi, Reiko Dan | Comedy | |
| Oiroke konikku-Fushigina nakama | Susumu Kodama | Yosuke Natsuki, Yoichi Hayashi, Judy Ong | Comedy | |
| Rebel Against Glory | Ko Nakahira | Toshio Kurosawa, Chieko Matsubara, Kunie Tanaka | Action | |
| Sain wa V | Susumu Takebayashi | Kaai Okada, Jin Nakayama, Mari Nakayama | Melodrama | |
| Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town | Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass | Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, Joan Gardner, Robie Lester | Christmas | |
| The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan | Masahiro Shinoda | Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Shōichi Ozawa | — | |
| Sex Jack | Kōji Wakamatsu | Michio Akiyama, Mizako Kaga, Tamaki Katori | ||
| Sore ga otoko no ikiru michi | Jun Fukuda | Makoto Fujita, Takuya Fujioka, Chitose Kobayashi | Comedy | |
| Space Amoeba | Ishirō Honda | Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi | — | |
| Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter | Yasuharu Hasebe | Meiko Kaji, Rikiya Yasuoka, Tatsuya Fuji | Crime | |
| Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo | Toshiya Fujita | Meiko Kaji, Bunjaku Han, Takeo Chii | — | |
| Take Care, Little Red Riding Hood | Shiro Moritani | Yusuke Okada, Kazuyo Mori, Tetsuo Tomigawa | Drama | Puppet animated short film |
| Terror in the Streets | Michio Yamamoto | Wakako Sakai, Katsutoshi Arata, Kenji Imai | Horror | |
| Tora! Tora! Tora! | Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku | Martin Balsam, Jason Robards, Sō Yamamura | War | Japanese-American co-production |
| Tora-san, His Tender Love | Azuma Morisaki | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Michiyo Aratama, Shin Morikawa | — | |
| Tora-san's Grand Scheme | Shun'ichi Kobayashi | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Komaki Kurihara | — | |
| Tora-san's Runaway | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Aiko Nagayama | — | |
| Two Halves | Yukio Aoshima | Yukio Aoshima, Chinatsu Nakayama, Jiro Sakagami | Comedy | |
| The Vampire Doll | Michio Yamamoto | Kayo Matsuo, Yukiko Kobayashi | Horror | |
| Where Spring Comes Late | Yoji Yamada | Chieko Baisho, Hisashi Igawa, Chishū Ryū | — | |
| Will to Conquer | Seiji Maruayama | Kinnosuke Yorozuya, Yoshiko Sakuma, Tatsuya Nakadai | — | |
| Women Smell of Night | Takashi Nomura | Akira Kobayashi, Ryohei Uchida, Noriko Maki | — | |
| Yasashii raion | Takashi Yanase | — | — | Animated short |
| Yawara no hoshi | Tatsuo Yamada | Kenichi Sakuragi, Yukiko Kimura, Yoko Hayama | Melodrama | |
| Zatoichi at the Fire Festival | Kenji Misumi | Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Ohara | — | |
| Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo | Kihachi Okamoto | Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune, Shin Kishida | Action, adventure | |
| Zeni Geba | Yoshinori Wada | KaraJuro, Kenbo Kaminarimon, Takeshi Katō | — | |