A list of films produced in Japan in 1939 (see 1939 in film).
Film releases Opening Title Director Cast Genre Notes Ref4 January Enoken's Shrewd Period Kajirō Yamamoto 7 January Okayo's Preparedness Yasujirō Shimazu 11 January Blizzard Ronin Kondo Katsuhiko 15 January Honcho Monster Cat Story Hôzô Nakajima Horror 28 January Four Seasons of Children Hiroshi Shimizu Drama 1 February Old Songs Tamizo Ishida Drama 1 February Women at War Yasushi Sasaki War, drama 15 February Explosion! Tomotaka Tasaka Drama 15 February Southern Wind Minoru Shibuya Chishū Ryū 21 February Beautiful Departure Satsuo Yamamoto Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine 21 February Numazu Officer School Tadashi Imai War, drama 11 March The Whole Family Works Mikio Naruse Drama 14 March My Daughter's Only Wish Torajirō Saitō Hideko Takamine 16 March Tsukiyo Karasu Kintaro Inoue 20 March Roppa no Hōjiro Sensei Yutaka Abe Hideko Takamine 30 March Noroi hi no gin neko Kanenori Yamada Horror March Fighting Soldiers Fumio Kamei Documentary, war 1 April A Brother and His Younger Sister Yasujirō Shimazu Chishū Ryū Drama 13 April Earth Tomu Uchida Drama Winner of the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year. 13 April Ie naki musume Seiichi Ina 13 April Spring Thunder Keisuke Sasaki Chishū Ryū 15 April Yama to shojo Minoru Matsui 4 May Maboroshi-jô no bakeneko Seiji Suezaki Horror 5 May Zoku aizen katsura Hiromasa Nomura 11 May The Old Man of the Propeller Kunio Watanabe Drama, comedy 20 May Shanghai Landing Party Hisatora Kumagai Setsuko Hara War, drama 21 May Enoken's Kurama Tengu Kondo Katsuhiko Action, comedy 25 May Haha ni sasaguru uta Seiichi Ina Drama 31 May Ichiyo Higuchi Kyōtarō Namiki Hideko Takamine Biopic, drama 1 June New Woman Question and Answer Yasushi Sasaki Chishū Ryū Drama 1 June Shunjû ittôryû Santaro Marune Historical drama 15 June Weeds with Flowers Hiroshi Shimizu 17 June Osanaki mono no hata Takeshi Sato 28 June Iron Brothers Kunio Watanabe 6 July Haha o tataeru uta Kenkichi Hara 9 July The Fighting Firemen Tamizo Ishida Historical drama 20 July Five Siblings Kōzaburō Yoshimura Drama July Benkei tai Ushiwaka Kenzō Masaoka Animation, comedy, action 1 August Kaidan Kyôren onna shishô Shigeru Kido Horror 10 August Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu Nobuo Nakagawa Comedy 10 August Sincerity Mikio Naruse Drama 20 August Machi Satsuo Yamamoto Setsuko Hara Drama 31 August Lovers' Duet Yasushi Sasaki Drama 19 September Easy Alley Kajirō Yamamoto 19 September Enoken no ganbari senjutsu Nobuo Nakagawa War 19 September Rivals Nobuo Nakagawa Comedy 10 October The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Kenji Mizoguchi Historical drama 12 October Tanuki goten Keigo Kimura 13 October Surging Waves Kenkichi Hara 14 October Mud and Soldiers Tomotaka Tasaka War 21 October Flower Picking Diary Tamizo Ishida Hideko Takamine 21 October The Day Before Ryō Hagiwara Hideko Takamine Historical drama 31 October Women in Tokyo Osamu Fushimizu Setsuko Hara 9 November Daini no shuppatsu Iseo Hirukawa 30 November Sea Raiding Unit Kichiro Tsuji Historical drama 30 November Song of the White Orchid Kunio Watanabe Yoshiko Yamaguchi Drama 1 December Warm Current Kōzaburō Yoshimura Drama 7 December Devoted Servant Naosuke Saburo Kunikida 14 December Singing Lovebirds Masahiro Makino 17 December Mother is Strong Keisuke Sasaki Chishū Ryū 20 December Shinpen Tange Sazen: Sekigan no maki Nobuo Nakagawa Hideko Takamine Action, historical 29 December Enoken's Yaji and Kita Nobuo Nakagawa Historical, comedy 29 December Entatsu, Achako and Torazo: Chuji Kunisada's First Smile of the New Year Torajirō Saitō Revenge of Wronged Souls Toshio Ōtani
See also 1939 in Japan
References
External links
Japanese Movie Database's 1939 list