List of Japanese films of 1971
A list of films released in Japan in 1971 (see 1971 in film).
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3000 kiro no wana | Jun Fukuda | Jiro Tamiya, Mie Hama, Kaori Taniguchi | — | |
| Ame wa shitte ita | Michio Yamamoto | Keiko Torii, Yoko Minamikaze, Toshio Kurosawa | — | |
| Animal Treasure Island | Hiroshi Ikeda | Minori Matsushima, Asao Koike, Hitoshi Takagi | Anime | Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island |
| Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon | Shōgorō Nishimura | Kazuko Shirakawa | — | |
| Atakku No.1–Namida no fuschichyo | Fumio Kurokawa | — | — | Animated feature film |
| The Battle of Okinawa | Kihachi Okamoto | Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai | War | |
| Beat '71 | Toshiya Fujita | Meiko Kaji, Takeo Chii, Yoshio Inaba | — | |
| Castle Orgies | Isao Hayashi | Setsuko Ogawa | — | |
| Chimimoryo: A Soul of Demons | Ko Nakahara | Akaji Maro, Hiroko Ogi, Kazuko Ineno | — | |
| Choeki Taro: Mamushi no Kyodai | ||||
| The Ceremony | Nagisa Oshima | Kenzo Kawarasaki, Kei Satō, Atsuko Kaku | ||
| Coed Report: Yuko's White Breasts | Yukihiko Kondo | Yuko Katagiri | — | |
| Damasarete noraiurasu | Takashi Tsuboshima | Hitoshi Ueki, Hajime Hana, Cha Kato | — | |
| Dare no tame ni aisuruka | Masanobu Deme | Wakako Sakai, Yūzō Kayama, Mitsuko Mori | — | |
| Emperor Tomato Ketchup | Shuji Terayama | Goro Abashiri, Tarō Apollo, Shiro Demaemochi | ||
| Futari dake no asa | Takeshi Matsumori | Yusuke Okada, Shiro Mifune, Ryoko Nakano | — | |
| Gamera vs. Zigra | Noriaki Yuasa | Gloria Zoellner, Arlene Zoellner, Koji Fujiyama | — | |
| Go! Go! Kamen Rider | Hidetoshi Kitamura | Hiroshi Fujioka | Tokusatsu | Movie version of Kamen Rider episode 13 |
| Godzilla vs. Hedorah | Yoshimitsu Banno | Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase | — | |
| Hajimete no tabi | Shiro Moritani | Yusuke Okada, Choei Takahashi, Kazuyo Mori | — | |
| Hashire! Kotaro-Otoko dakara nakusa | Kunihiko Yamamoto | Shunji Fujimura, Chigusa Go, Tonpei Hidari | Comedy | |
| Hibari no subete | Umetsugu Inoue | Hibari Misora, Takahiro Tamura, Kazuro Nakagawa | Documentary | |
| Inakappe taisho | Hiroshi Sasagawa | — | — | Animated short film |
| Inakappe taisho–Neko no arukeba suzume ni ataru dasu–Ataru mo ataru mo toki no un dasu | Hiroshi Sasagawa | — | — | |
| Inn of Evil | Masaki Kobayashi | Kanemon Nakamura, Komaki Kurihara, Kei Satō | — | |
| Kaette kita Urutoraman | Yoshiharu Tomita | Jiro Dan, Shin Kishida, Nobuo Tsukamoto | — | |
| Kaette kita Urutoraman–Tatsumaki kaiju no kyofu | Kauzo Sagawa | Jiro Dan, Shin Kishida, Nobuo Tsukamoto | — | |
| Kamui gaiden | Kesuke Kondo | — | Documentary | Animated film |
| Kaoyaku | ||||
| Keiji monogatari–Kyodai no okite | Shun Inagaki | Kunie Tanaka, Yūzō Kayama, Senri Kurihara | — | |
| Kigeki Omedetai yatsu | Kobako Hanato | Kon Omura, Hiroshi Tachibana, Tadao Takashima | Comedy | |
| Kigeki Kinow no teki wa kyo mo teki | Yoichi Maeda | Masaaki Sakai, Chosuke Ikariya, Kyoko Yoshizawa | — | |
| Kigeki San oku en saisakusen | Katsushin Ishida | Jiro Tamiya, Norihei Miki, Haruko Wanibuchi | Comedy | |
| Kitsune no kureta akanbo | ||||
| Koibitotte yabasete | Kunihiko Watanabe | Kyoko Yoshizawa, Isao Natsuyagi, Hiroshi Ishikawa | — | |
| Konchyu monogatari–Minashigo Hattchi–Otsuki sama no mama | Ippei Kuri | — | — | Animated short film |
| Konchyu monogatari–Minashigo Hattchi–Wassure nagosa ni negai o komete | Kihei Tomino | — | — | Animated short |
| Lake of Dracula | Michio Yamamoto | Midori Fujita, Sanae Emi, Choei Takahashi | Horror | |
| Maboroshi no satsui | Tadashi Sawajima | Keiju Kobayashi, Ayako Wakao, Kankuro Nakamura | — | |
| Macchi uro no shyojo | Kazuhiko Watanabe | — | — | Short puppet animation |
| Minamata: The Victims and Their World | Noriaki Tsuchimoto | Documentary | ||
| Muumin | Masaaki Osumi | — | — | Animated short film |
| Nippon ichi no shokku otoko | Takashi Tsuboshima | Hitoshi Ueki, Wakako Sakai, Kei Tani | — | |
| Okite koronde mata okite | Yoichi Maeda | Masaaki Sakai, Chosuke Ikariya, Kyoko Yoshizawa | — | |
| Okusama wa 18 sai–Shinkon kyoshitsu | Kunihiko Yamamoto | Yuki Okazaki, Tetsuo Ishidate, Jo Shishido | — | |
| Onna no hanamichi | Tadashi Sawajima | Hibari Misora, Takahiro Tamura, Kazuo Nakagawa | — | |
| Saredo warera ga hibi–Wakare no uta | Shiro Moritani | Tomoko Ogawa, Takashi Yamaguchi, Midori Fujita | — | |
| Shiosai | Shiro Moritani | Itsuto Asahina, Midori Onozato, Miki Odagiri | — | |
| Showa hitoketa shacho tai futaketa shacho–Getsu Getsu Ka Sui Moku Kin Kin | Katsushin Ishida | Keiju Kobayashi, Wakako Sakai, Eijirō Tōno | — | |
| Showa hitoketa shacho tai futaketa shacho | Katsushin Ishida | Keiju Kobayashi, Wakako Sakai, Toshio Kurosawa | — | |
| Silence | Masahiro Shinoda | Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba, David Lampson | — | |
| Sogoi yatsura | Kiyoshi Nakamura | Yosuke Natsuki, Toshio Kurosawa, Reiko Dan | — | |
| A Soul to Devils | Ko Nakahira | Nobuko Tashiro | Drama | Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival |
| Swords of Death | Tomu Uchida | Kinnosuke Yorozuya, Rentarō Mikuni, Hideko Okiyama | — | |
| Sympathy for the Underdog | Kinji Fukasaku | Kōji Tsuruta, Noboru Ando | Crime | |
| To Love Again | Kon Ichikawa | Renaud Verley, Ruriko Asaoka, Tetsuo Ishidate | — | |
| Tora-san's Shattered Romance | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 6th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series |
| Tora-san, the Good Samaritan | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 7th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series |
| Tora-san's Love Call | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 8th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series |
| The Wolves | Hideo Gosha | Tatsuya Nakadai, Noboru Ando, Toshio Kurosawa | Crime | |
| Young Guy, The Ace Rider | Katsumi Iwauchi | Yūzō Kayama, Shigeru Oya, Kunie Tanaka | — | |
| Yuhi-kun–Sarariiman oashutsu | Tsugunobu Kotani | Osami Nabe, Junzaburo Ban, Hiroko Nori | — | |
| Zatoichi Meets the One Armed Swordsman | Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Shintaro Katsu, Jimmy Wang Yu, Yuko Hamada | — | Japanese-Hong Kong co-production |