List of Japanese films of 1973

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A list of films released in Japan in 1973 (see 1973 in film).

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity	Kinji Fukasaku	Bunta Sugawara	Yakuza	First in Fukasaku's series of Yakuza films. Won the 1974 Kinema Junpo Awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Sugawara) and Best Screenplay (Kazuo Kasahara). 5th on Kinema Junpo's 2009 list of the Top 10 Japanese Films of All Time.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima	Kinji Fukasaku	Bunta Sugawara, Sonny Chiba	Yakuza
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War	Kinji Fukasaku	Bunta Sugawara	Yakuza
Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture	Teruo Ishii	Reiko Ike	Pinky Violent
Godzilla vs. Megalon	Jun Fukuda		Kaiju
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
Kamen Rider V3	Minoru Yamada	Hiroshi Miyauchi	Tokusatsu	Movie version of Kamen Rider V3 episode 2
Kamen Rider V3 vs. the Destron Monsters	Minoru Yamada	Hiroshi Miyauchi	Tokusatsu
Kanashimi no Belladonna	Eiichi Yamamoto			Entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival
Lady Snowblood	Toshiya Fujita	Meiko Kaji	Exploitation	Was a major influence on Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films
Mute Samurai
Flying At 'Ya, Android Kikaider	Hidetoshi Kitamura	Daisuke Ban	Tokusatsu	Shot and exhibited in 3D
Ōkami no Monshō
Ōshō
Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland	Yukihiro Sawada	Yuri Yamashina Takeo Chii	Roman porno	Nihilistic story of police corruption. Influenced later anti-hero films.
Rise, Fair Sun	Kei Kumai			Entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom	Norifumi Suzuki	Reiko Ike Miki Sugimoto	Pinky Violent
Tora-san Loves an Artist	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi	Comedy	12th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Tora-san's Forget Me Not	Yoji Yamada	Kiyoshi Atsumi	Comedy	11th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series
Tsugaru Folk Song	Kōichi Saitō
The World of Geisha	Tatsumi Kumashiro	Junko Miyashita	Roman porno	Kinema Junpo's 6th best Japanese film of the year
Zatoichi's Conspiracy

External links

• Japanese films of 1973 at the Internet Movie Database