List of Japanese films of 1983
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A list of
films
released in
Japan
in 1983 (see
1983 in film
).
Title
Director
Cast
Genre
Notes
1983
Aesop's Fables
Norio Hikone
—
Animated film
[
1
]
The Ballad of Narayama
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata
Sumiko Sakamoto
Drama
Japan Academy Prize
for Best Film and
Palme d'Or
winner at
Cannes
Barefoot Gen
Masaru Mori
Issei Miyazaki
Anime
War
Drama
Detective Story
Dynaman Movie
Shōhei Tōjo
Jyunichi Haruta
Sayoko Hagiwara
Sci-fi for Children
The Family Game
Yoshimitsu Morita
Yūsaku Matsuda
,
Juzo Itami
Drama
Female Cats
Shingo Yamashiro
Ai Saotome
Roman porno
Hometown
Seijirō Kōyama
Entered into the
13th Moscow International Film Festival
Izakaya Choji
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Usagi Asō
Pink film
Legend of the Eight Samurai
Kinji Fukasaku
Hiroko Yakushimaru
Hiroyuki Sanada
Samurai
Drama
The Makioka Sisters
Kon Ichikawa
Sayuri Yoshinaga
Keiko Kishi
Yūko Kotegawa
Drama
Meiso chizu
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Nagisa Oshima
David Bowie
Takeshi Kitano
Ryuichi Sakamoto
War
Entered into the
1983 Cannes Film Festival
Miyuki
Kazuyuki Izutsu
Anime
Nankyoku Monogatari
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Ken Takakura
Tsunehiko Watase
Docufiction
Drama
Entered into the
34th Berlin International Film Festival
Rope and Breasts
Masaru Konuma
Nami Matsukawa
Roman porno
Matsukawa's farewell appearance as SM Queen
Toki o Kakeru Shōjo
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Tomoyo Harada
Romance
Sci-fi
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Yoji Yamada
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Comedy
32nd in the
Otoko wa Tsurai yo
series
Tora-san's Song of Love
Yoji Yamada
Kiyoshi Atsumi
Comedy
31st in the
Otoko wa Tsurai yo
series
Urusei Yatsura: Only You
Mamoru Oshii
Fumi Hirano
Toshio Furukawa
Anime
Romantic comedy
Science fiction
Mamoru Oshii
's first feature film
The first
Urusei Yatsura
film
^
Galbraith IV 1994
, p. 94.