| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
|---|
| 2 January | Tange Sazen - Dai-ippen | Daisuke Itō | Denjirō Ōkōchi, Katsutaro Bando,Kunitaro Sawamura | Jidaigeki | | |
| 2 February | The Dancing Girl of Izu | Heinosuke Gosho | Kinuyo Tanaka, Den Obinata, Tokuji Kobayashi | Drama, Romance | | [1] |
| 14 January | The Bride Talks in Her Sleep | Heinosuke Gosho | Kinuyo Tanaka,Chōko Iida,Tatsuo Saitō, Tokuji Kobayashi | Comedy | | |
| 9 February | Woman of Tokyo | Yasujirō Ozu | Yoshiko Okada,Ureo Egawa,Kinuyo Tanaka, Shin'yō Nara,Chishū Ryū | Drama | | [2] |
| 15 March | Island Girl | Hôtei Nomura | Yukichi Iwata, Ryoichi Takeuchi,Ureo Egawa | Drama | | |
| 1 April | Apart from You | Mikio Naruse | Mitsuko Yoshikawa,Akio Isono | Drama | | |
| 27 April | Dragnet Girl | Yasujirō Ozu | Kinuyo Tanaka | Crime | | |
| 27 April | Hotta Hayato | Daisuke Itō | Shinpachirō Asaka,Ryōsuke Kagawa,Chiezō Kataoka | Jidaigeki | Considered mostly lost | [3] |
| 4 May | Tipsy Life | Sotoji Kimura | | Musical, Comedy | | |
| 11 May | A Woman Crying in Spring | Hiroshi Shimizu | Den Obinata, Akiko Chihaya, Yoshiko Okada | Drama | | [4] |
| 1 June | Japanese Girls at the Harbor | Hiroshi Shimizu | Michiko Oikawa,Yukiko Inoue,Ureo Egawa | Romance, Drama | | [5] |
| 1 June | The Water Magician | Kenji Mizoguchi | Takako Irie,Tokihiko Okada,Ichirō Sugai | | | |
| 8 June | Every-Night Dreams | Mikio Naruse | Sumiko Kurishima,Teruko Kojima | Drama | | [6] |
| 15 June | Gion Shigure | Minoru Inuzuka | Shirô Izome,Ranko Hanai, Eiji Takagi,Togo Yamamoto, Mantarō Ushio | | | |
| 15 June | The Life of Bangaku | Sadao Yamanaka | | | Lost film | [7] |
| 13 July | Two Lanterns | Teinosuke Kinugasa | | Jidaigeki | | |
| 10 August | Bored Hatamoto on a Rampage | Eiichi Koishi | Utaemon Ichikawa,Kokuten Kōdō, Ryuzo Takei, Jinichi Amano | Jidaigeki, Action | | |
| 17 August | The Layabout and Seabathing | Hiromasa Nomura | Akio Isono,Kōji Mitsui, Shozaburo Abe,Yukiko Inoue | Drama | | |
| 24 August | Musume juroku | Toshio Ōtani | Fujiko Fukamizu, Shintarô Takiguchi, Eiji Takagi | | | [8] |
| 31 August | The Feast of Gion | Kenji Mizoguchi | Shizuko Mori, Tokihiko Okada, Sumiko Suzuki, Ichirō Sugai | Romance | Considered lost | [9] |
| 7 September | Passing Fancy | Yasujirō Ozu | Takeshi Sakamoto | | Winner of theKinema Junpo Award for Best Film of the Year[10]. | |
| 21 September | A Man with a Married Woman’s Hairdo | Mikio Naruse | Mitsugu Fujii,Sumiko Mizukubo, Jun Arai, Akio Nomura | Drama | Considered lost | [11] |
| 5 October | Wasei Kingu Kongu | Torajirō Saitō | Yasuko Koizumi,Takeshi Sakamoto | | | [12] |
| 12 October | Genpei the Carp | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Kazuo Hasegawa, Toshiko Iizuka, Jushiro Kobayashi | Jidaigeki | | |
| 19 October | Happy Times | Hiromasa Nomura | Ureo Egawa, Hiroko Kawasaki,Tatsuo Saitō, Mitsugu Fujii | Drama | | |
| 31 October | The Boss’s Son at College | Hiroshi Shimizu | Mitsugu Fujii, Haruo Takeda, Yoshiko Tsubouchi | | | |
| 9 November | Love | Heinosuke Gosho | Yoshiko Okada,Tadao Watanabe, Tokuji Kobayashi | Drama | | |
| 30 November | Police Officer | Tomu Uchida | Eiji Nakano,Isamu Kosugi, Taisuke Matsumoto | Crime, Drama | | [13] |
