Drunken Angel – Akira Kurosawa (1948)
The Tale of Genji – Kozaburo Yoshimura (1951)
Okuni and Gohei – Mikio Naruse (1952)
Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice – Yasujiro Ozu (1952)
Gion Festival Music – Kenji Mizoguchi (1953)
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple – Hiroshi Inagaki (1955)
Tales of the Taira Clan – Kenji Mizoguchi (1955)
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island – Hiroshi Inagaki (1956)
Street of Shame – Kenji Mizoguchi (1956)
The Loyal 47 Ronin – Kunio Watanabe (1958)
The 47 Masterless Samurai – Sadatsugu Matsuda (1959)
Magistrate Toyama 5: The Tattooed Official – Yasushi Sasaki (1960)
Musashi Miyamoto 1: Zen and Sword – Tomu Uchida (1961)
Ako Roshi – Sadatsugu Matsuda (1961)
Musashi Miyamoto 2: Duel at Devil's Mask Pass – Tomu Uchida (1962)
Chiisakobe – Tomotaka Tasaka (1962)
The Red Shadow – Shigehiro Ozawa (1962)
In Search of Mother – Tai Kato (1962)
Musashi Miyamoto 3: Birth of the Two-Sword Style – Tomu Uchida (1963)
Musashi Miyamoto 4: Duel at Ichijoji Temple – Tomu Uchida (1964)
Musashi Miyamoto 5: The Final Duel – Tomu Uchida (1965)
Cold Rice / Osan / Chan – Tomotaka Tasaka (1965)

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