List of Japanese films of 1973

This is a 'list of films released in Japan in 1973. In 1973, there were 2530 movie theatres in Japan, with 1332 showing only domestic films and 556 showing both domestic and imported films.^[1] In total, there were 405 Japanese films released in 1973.^[2] In total, domestic films grossed 19,458 million yen in 1973.^[2]

Japanese films released in 1973

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
Battles Without Honor and Humanity	Fukasaku, KinjiKinji Fukasaku	Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko	N/A	[3]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima	Fukasaku, KinjiKinji Fukasaku	Bunta Sugawara, Sonny Chiba, Meiko Kaji	N/A	[4]
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War	Fukasaku, KinjiKinji Fukasaku	Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase	N/A	[5]
Belladonna of Sadness	Yamamoto, EiichiEiichi Yamamoto		N/A	Animated film[6]
Female Convict Scorpion: Beast Stable	Itō, ShunyaShunya Itō	Meiko Kaji, Mikio Narita, Koji Nanbara	N/A	[7]
Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701's Grudge Song	Hasebe, YasuharuYasuharu Hasebe	Meiko Kaji, Masakazu Tamura, Toshiyuki Hosokawa	N/A	[8]
Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture	Teruo Ishii	Reiko Ike	Pinky Violent
Godzilla vs. Megalon	Fukuda, JunJun Fukuda	Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Robert Dunham	N/A	[9]
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Kamen Rider V3	Minoru Yamada	Hiroshi Miyauchi	Tokusatsu	Movie version of Kamen Rider V3 episode 2
Kamen Rider V3 vs. the Destron Monsters	Minoru Yamada	Hiroshi Miyauchi	Tokusatsu
Lady Snowblood	Fujita, ToshiyaToshiya Fujita	Meiko Kaji, Akira Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa	Crime	[10]
Mute Samurai
Flying At 'Ya, Android Kikaider	Hidetoshi Kitamura	Daisuke Ban	Tokusatsu	Shot and exhibited in 3D
Ōkami no Monshō
Ōshō
Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland	Yukihiro Sawada	Yuri Yamashina Takeo Chii	Roman porno	Nihilistic story of police corruption. Influenced later anti-hero films.
Rise, Fair Sun	Kei Kumai			Entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival
Sex & Fury	Suzuki, NoribumiNoribumi Suzuki	Reiko Ike, Christina Lindberg, Masataka Naruse	Action	[11]
Submersion of Japan	Moritani, ShiroShiro Moritani	Keiju Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujioka, Tetsuro Tamba	N/A	[12]
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom	Suzuki, NoribumiNoribumi Suzuki	Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike	Thriller	[13]
Tora-san Loves an Artist	Yamada, YojiYoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Chieko Misaki	N/A	[14]
Tora-san's Forget Me Not	Yamada, YojiYoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Chieko Misaki	N/A	[15]
Tsugaru Folk Song	Kōichi Saitō
The World of Geisha	Tatsumi Kumashiro	Junko Miyashita	Roman porno	Kinema Junpo's 6th best Japanese film of the year
Zatoichi's Conspiracy	Yasuda, KimiyoshiKimiyoshi Yasuda	Shintaro Katsu, Eiji Okada, Kei Sato, Takashi Shimura	N/A	[16]

Footnotes

1. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 467.
2. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 469.
3. Battles Without Honor and Humanity (book). Arrow Films. 2015. p. 4. FCD1185.
4. Hiroshima Death Match (book). Arrow Films. 2015. p. 6. FCD1185.
5. Proxy War (book). Arrow Films. 2015. p. 8. FCD1185.
6. Fountain, Clarke. "Belladonna". AllMovie. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
7. Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection (book). Arrow Video. 2016. p. 9. FCD1338/AV060.
8. Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection (book). Arrow Video. 2016. p. 11. FCD1338/AV060.
9. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 193.
10. Deming, Mark. "Lady Snowblood". AllMovie. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
11. Guarisco, Donald. "Sex & Fury". AllMovie. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
12. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 374.
13. Seibert, Perry. "Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom". AllMovie. Retrieved September 27, 2016.
14. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 407.
15. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 412.
16. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 458.

Sources

• Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0032-3.

External links

• Japanese films of 1973 at the Internet Movie Database