List of Japanese films of 1973

Title Director Cast Genre Notes Akaitori nigeta Toshihachi Fujita Yoshio Harada, Kaori Momoi, Masaaki Daimon — 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 — Esu o nerae! Tenisu okoku no Shinderera Osamu Dezaki — Animated short 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 — Gokiburi deka Tsugunobu Kotani Tetsuya Watari, Takeo Jii, Masaaki Daimon — Golgo 13 (film) Hangyako no hoshu Yukihiro Sawada Yujiro Ishihara, Tetsuya Watari, Mieko takamine — Hanzo the Razor – The Snare Yasuzo Masumura Shintaro Katsu, Kō Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa — Hatachi no genten Kenjiro Omori Yuriko Sumi, Takeo Jii, Masaaki Daimon — Jyanguru Kurobe Osamu Dezaki — Animated short Kagaku ninja tai Gacchaman–Densi kaiju Renjiraa Hisayuki Toriumi — Animated short Kagaku ninja tai Gacchaman–Hinotori tai hikuma Hisayuki Toriumi — Animated short 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 — Kokosei burai hikae–Kanjiru u~Muramasa Mio Ezaki Masaaki Daimon, Yachiyo Otori, Toru Abe — Kokosei burai hikae–Tsuki no Muramasa Mio Ezaki Masaaki Daimon, Yuriko Hishimi, Sayoko Kato — Konketsuji Rika–Hama gure komoriuta Kozaburo Yoshimura Rika Aoki, Jiro Kawarazaki, Kunie Tanaka — Konketsuji Rika–Hitori yuku sasuraitabi Ko Nakahira Rika Aoki, Ryunosuke Minegishi, Kaoru Hama — Lady Snowblood Toshiya Fujita Meiko Kaji, Akira Nishimura, Toshio Kurosawa Chanbara Little Adventurer–Sotsugyo ryoko Masanobu Deme Mark Lester, Gerald Lancaster, Zhen Zhen Family Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons Kenji Misumi Tomisaburo Wakayama, Michio Yasuda, Akihiro Tomikawa — Long Journey into Love Masanobu Deme Komaki Kurihara, Go Kato, Kyoko Maya — Mushukunin Mikogami no Jokichi–Tasogare ni senko ga tonda Kazuo Ikehiro Yoshio Harada, Isao Natsuyagi, Michiyo Yasuda — Mute Samurai ^{[citation needed]} Ningen kakumei Toshio Masuda Tetsuro Tamba, Shinsuke Ashida, Michiyo Aratama — Nippon kyokaden–Dai ichibu No azami/Dai nibu Aoi botan Tai Kato Yoko Maki, Tetsuya Watari, Kinya Kitaoji — Nippon sanjushi–Hakata obi shime ippon dokko no maki Kihachi Okamoto Keiju Kobayashi, Yusuke Okada, Mickey Yasukawa — Ōkami no monshō Masashi Matsumoto Taro Shigaki, Toshio Kurosawa, Akiko Aki — Omocha ya Ken-Chan–Yoso de wa iko Yoshitaka Sone Yasuyuki Miyawaki, Tomoko Nagaharu, Masaaki Maeda — Ōshō Hiromichi Horikawa Shintaro Katsu, Tamao Nakamura, Mikiko Otanashi — Panda • kopanda–Amefuri sakasu Isao Takahata — Animated short The Petrified Forest Masahiro Shinoda Kenichi Hagiwara, Sayoko Ninomiya, Masako Yagi — Rainboo Man–Satsujin Purofesshyonaru Taku Nagano Yasukuni Mizutani, Masao Murata, Megumi Ito — Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland Yukihiro Sawada Yuri Yamashina, Takeo Chii — ^[18] Rise, Fair Sun Kei Kumai Tatsuya Nakadai, Kiny Kitaoji, Keiko Sekine — Saeteru yatsuya Yasuhiro Yoshimatsu Kiyotaka Mitsuki, Ichiro Ogura, Rumi Matsumoto — Sakura no daimon Kenji Misumi Tomisaburo Wakayama, Minoru Oki, Hiroshi Sekiguchi — Samurai jyaiantsu–Hoeru banbaban Tadao Nagahara — Animated short Sarariiman jingi Tsugunobu Kotani Osami Nabe, Kunie Tanaka, Raita Ryu — Senso o shiranai kodomatachi Masashi Matsumoto Yoshiki Shimamura, Sayoko Kato, Wakako Sakai — 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 — Tobidase! Seishun Masahiro Takase Takenori Murano, Shoji Ishibashi, Ichiro Arishima — Tora-san Loves an Artist Yoji Yamada Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Chieko Misaki — Tora-san’s Forget Me Not Yoji Yamada Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Chieko Misaki — Tsugaru Folk Song Kōichi Saitō ^{[citation needed]} Twilight Years Shiro Toyoda Hisaya Morishige, Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura — Urutoraman Tarou–Moero! Urutora 6 kyodai Kazuo Sagawa Saburo Shinoda, Takahiko Tono, Shusuke Tsumura — Urutoraman Tarou–Urutora no haha wa taiyo no yo ni Eizo Yamagiwa Saburo Shinoda, Akira Nagoya, Takahiko Higashino — 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 — Yama nezumi Rokkii Chyakku–Ganbare Chatara Masaharu Endo, Tadamichi Koga — Animated short Za • Gokiburi Tsugunobu Kotani Hiroshi Fujioka, Junzaburo Ban, Mayumi Nagisa — Zatoichi’s Conspiracy Kimiyoshi Yasuda Shintaro Katsu, Eiji Okada, Kei Satō —