Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa (1952)
Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa (1954)
Throne of Blood – Akira Kurosawa (1957)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love – Masaki Kobayashi (1959)
The Bad Sleep Well – Akira Kurosawa (1960)
Musashi Miyamoto 1: Zen and Sword – Tomu Uchida (1961)
Musashi Miyamoto 2: Duel at Devil's Mask Pass – Tomu Uchida (1962)
Kwaidan – Masaki Kobayashi (1964)
Warrior of the Wind – Tai Kato (1964)
Samurai Spy – Masahiro Shinoda (1965)

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