List of Japanese films of 1977

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

Notes

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