List of Japanese films of 1977

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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	Yusaku 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
The Alaska Story	Hiromichi Horikawa	Kinya Jitaoji, Kyoko Mitsubayashi, Eiji Okada	N/A	[1]
Ballad of Orin	Masahiro Shinoda	Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka		[2]
The Devil's Bouncing Ball Song	Ichikawa, KonKon Ichikawa, Osamu Tanaka	Koji Ishizaka, Keiko Kishi, Koji Kita	N/A	[1]
Doberman Deka	Kinji Fukasaku		Action
Enban senso – Ban kitto	Kidaka, TakeharuTakeharu Kidaka	Eiji Okada, Yukei Tanabe, Akinori Umezu	N/A	[1]
Erotic Diary of an Office Lady	Noboru Tanaka	Asami Ogawa	Roman porno
Fairy in a Cage	Kōyū Ohara	Naomi Tani	Roman porno	[3][4]
The Far Road	Sachiko Hidari	Sachiko Hidari		Entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival
Fascination: Portrait of a Lady	Kōyū Ohara	Naomi Tani	Roman porno
The Gate of Youth – Part II	Urayama, KirioKirio Urayama	Ken Tanaka, Shinobu Otake, Ayumi Ishida	N/A	[1]
Hakunetsu – deddo hiito	Ishida, KatsushinKatsushin Ishida	Jun Eto, Yuko Kotegawa, Jun Fubuki	N/A	[5]
Hokuriku Proxy War	Kinji Fukasaku		Crime, Drama
House	Nobuhiko Obayashi	Kimiko Ikegami Kumiko Oba	Horror	[6]
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		[7]
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	Kawauchi, YasunoriYasunori Kawauchi, Takao Kodama		N/A	[1]
Proof of the Man
Kyojin–gun monogatari-Susume!! Eiko e	Sawashima, TadaoTadao Sawashima	Sadaharu Oh, Shigeo Nagashima	Documentary	[1]
Seinen no ki	Nishimura, KiyoshiKiyoshi Nishimura	Tomokazu Miura, Fumi Dan, Yumeji Tuskioka	N/A	[5]
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	Kawarazaki, YoshihiroYoshihiro Kawarazaki	Junko Sakurada, Akira Onodera, Kyoko Hayashi	N/A	[5]
The War in Space	Jun Fukuda	Kensaku Morita Yūko Asano	Tokusatsu
Yatta Man	Tanaka, EijiEiji Tanaka		N/A	[1]
The Yellow Handkerchief	Yoji Yamada	Ken Takakura		Japan Academy Prize for Best Film

Notes

1. Galbraith IV, 2008. p.308
2. "Hanare Goze Orin". British Film Institute. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
3. "Ori No Naka No Yosei". Allmovie. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
4. 檻の中の妖精(邦画) (in Japanese). Kinema Junpo. Archived from the original on February 24, 2012. Retrieved 2009-09-13.
5. Galbraith IV, 2008. p.309
6. Fountain, Clarke. "House". Allmovie. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
7. "Kozure Satsujinken". British Film Institute. Retrieved December 7, 2012.

References

• Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 1461673747.

External links

• Japanese films of 1977 at the Internet Movie Database