The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail – Akira Kurosawa (1945)
Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa (1950)
Ugetsu – Kenji Mizoguchi (1953)
The Bad Sleep Well – Akira Kurosawa (1960)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs – Mikio Naruse (1960)
Zatoichi: The Festival of Fire – Kenji Misumi (1970)

(Key films outside the jidai-geki genre are listed in gray)