# Kinema Junpo's number one Japanese films, 1931-1940

From The Neighbor's Wife and Mine and I Was Born, But... to Sisters of the Gion, Earth and Spring on Leper's Island: the ten films that topped Kinema Junpo's Japanese Best Ten from 1931 to 1940 (1930, split into categories, left out).

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- Feb 26, 2021 · 浩二
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## Top 10

1. **The Neighbor's Wife and Mine** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — 1931 Best Ten. Heinosuke Gosho. Japan's first full-length talkie.
2. **Passing Fancy** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 1933 Best Ten. Yasujirō Ozu. The first of his "Kihachi" films.
3. **Endless Advance** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1937 Best Ten. Tomu Uchida. A salaryman facing retirement.
4. **A Story of Floating Weeds** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 1934 Best Ten. Yasujirō Ozu. A travelling theatre troupe.
5. **Five Scouts** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 1938 Best Ten. Tomotaka Tasaka. A war film set in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
6. **Wife! Be Like a Rose!** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1935 Best Ten. Mikio Naruse. A daughter visits the father who left home.
7. **Sisters of the Gion** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1936 Best Ten. Kenji Mizoguchi. Two geisha sisters in Gion.
8. **Earth** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1939 Best Ten. Tomu Uchida. From Takashi Nagatsuka's novel.
9. **I Was Born, But...** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — 1932 Best Ten. Yasujirō Ozu. A silent comedy about two brothers.
10. **Spring on Leper's Island** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — 1940 Best Ten. Shirō Toyoda. From the memoir of a doctor at a leprosy sanatorium.

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