List of Japanese films of 1961
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Box-office ranking
| Rank | Title | Director | Cast | Box office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sanjuro | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune | ¥4.5 hundred million |
| 2 | Akō Rōshi | Sadatsugu Matsuda | Chiezō Kataoka | ¥4.3 hundred million |
| 3 | Aitsu to Watashi | Kō Nakahira | Yujiro Ishihara | ¥4 hundred million |
| 4 | Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune | ¥3.5 hundred million |
| 5 | Miyamoto Musashi | Tomu Uchida | Nakamura Kinnosuke | ¥3 hundred million |
List of films
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | ||||||
| Bad Boys | Susumu Hani | |||||
| Buddha | ||||||
| Daigaku no Wakadaishō | Yūzō Kayama | |||||
| The End of Summer | Yasujirō Ozu | Setsuko Hara | Entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival | |||
| Immortal Love | Keisuke Kinoshita | Hideko Takamine Keiji Sada |
Drama | |||
| Invasion of the Neptune Men | Koji Ota | Sonny Chiba | Science fiction | |||
| Tough Guy | ||||||
| Tough Guy, Part 2 | ||||||
| Blind Devotion | ||||||
| Hanakurabe tanuki dochu | ||||||
| Kaze to kumo totoride | ||||||
| The Last War | Shuei Matsubayashi | Akira Takarada | ||||
| Mito komon umi o wataru | ||||||
| Mothra | Ishirō Honda | Frankie Sakai | Sci-fi |
The first Appearance of Mothra. |
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| Pigs and Battleships | Shohei Imamura | Crime | ||||
| A Soldier's Prayer | Masaki Kobayashi | Third part of The Human Condition | ||||
| Yojimbo | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune | Samurai film | |||
| Yuzo Kayama | Musical comedy romance | The first of the Wakadaishō series | ||||
| Zoku Akumyō | ||||||
