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A list of films released in Japan in 1977 (see 1977 in film).

Box-office ranking

Rank Title Director Cast Box office
1 Mount Hakkoda Shirō Moritani Ken Takakura ¥2.5 billion
2 Proof of the Man Junya Sato Yūsaku Matsuda ¥2.25 billion
3 Village of the Eight Tombs Yoshitarō Nomura Kiyoshi Atsumi ¥1.98 billion
4 Torakku Yarō 4: Tenka Gomen Norifumi Suzuki Bunta Sugawara ¥1.28 billion
5 Torakku Yarō 5: Dokyō Ichibanboshi Norifumi Suzuki Bunta Sugawara ¥1.09 billion

List of films

Title Director Cast Genre Notes
1977
Akuma no temari-uta Kon Ichikawa — [1]
The Alaska Story Hiromichi Horikawa Kinya Jitaoji, Kyoko Mitsubayashi, Eiji Okada — [2]
Ballad of Orin Masahiro Shinoda Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka [3]
The Devil's Bouncing Ball Song Kon Ichikawa, Osamu Tanaka Koji Ishizaka, Keiko Kishi, Koji Kita — [2]
Doberman Deka Kinji Fukasaku Action
Enban senso – Ban kitto Takeharu Kidaka Eiji Okada, Yukei Tanabe, Akinori Umezu — [2]
Erotic Diary of an Office Lady Noboru Tanaka Asami Ogawa Roman porno [citation needed]
Fairy in a Cage Kōyū Ohara Naomi Tani Roman porno [4][5]
The Far Road Sachiko Hidari Sachiko Hidari Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival[citation needed]
Fascination: Portrait of a Lady Kōyū Ohara Naomi Tani Roman porno
The Gate of Youth – Part II Kirio Urayama Ken Tanaka, Shinobu Otake, Ayumi Ishida — [2]
The Hobbit Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass Orson Bean, Richard Boone, Hans Conried, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Cyril Ritchard, Theodore Animated musical
Hakunetsu – deddo hiito Katsushin Ishida Jun Eto, Yuko Kotegawa, Jun Fubuki — [6]
Hokuriku Proxy War Kinji Fukasaku Crime, Drama
House Nobuhiko Obayashi Kimiko Ikegami
Kumiko Oba		 Horror [7]
JAKQ Dengeki Tai Action for children

Movie version of JAKQ Dengeki Tai Episode 7.

Jigoku no tenshi: Akai bakuon Makoto Naitô
Kozure Satsujinken Kazuhiko Yamaguchi Shinichi Chiba, Tatsuo Umemiya, Isao Natsuygi [8]
Lady Chatterley In Tokyo Katsuhiko Fujii Izumi Shima Roman porno
Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds Junji Kurata Science fiction
The Life of Chikuzan Kaneto Shindo Entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival
Manga – Nippon Makashi Banashi – Momotaro Yasunori Kawauchi, Takao Kodama — [2]
Proof of the Man
Kyojin–gun monogatari-Susume!! Eiko e Tadao Sawashima Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima Documentary [2]
Seinen no ki Kiyoshi Nishimura Tomokazu Miura, Fumi Dan, Yumeji Tuskioka — [6]
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness Seijun Suzuki Yoko Shiraki
Yoshio Harada		 Drama
Tattooed Flower Vase Masaru Konuma Naomi Tani Roman porno
Tora-san Meets His Lordship Yoji Yamada Kiyoshi Atsumi Comedy 19th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Tora-san Plays Cupid Yoji Yamada Kiyoshi Atsumi Comedy 20th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Wakai hito Yoshihiro Kawarazaki Junko Sakurada, Akira Onodera, Kyoko Hayashi — [6]
The War in Space Jun Fukuda Kensaku Morita
Yūko Asano		 Tokusatsu
Yatta Man Eiji Tanaka — [2]
The Yellow Handkerchief Yoji Yamada Ken Takakura Japan Academy Prize for Best Film

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Akuma no temari-uta". Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Galbraith IV, 2008. p.308
  3. ^ "Hanare Goze Orin". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on September 2, 2009. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  4. ^ "Ori No Naka No Yosei". Allmovie. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  5. ^ 檻の中の妖精(邦画) (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
  6. ^ a b c Galbraith IV, 2008. p.309
  7. ^ Fountain, Clarke. "House". Allmovie. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  8. ^ "Kozure Satsujinken". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 7, 2010. Retrieved December 7, 2012.

References

External links

1977 films
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