The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail – Akira Kurosawa (1945)
Snow Trail – Senkichi Taniguchi (1947)
Rashomon – Akira Kurosawa (1950)
Vendetta of Samurai – Kazuo Mori (1952)
Vagabonds in a Country at War – Hiroshi Inagaki (1952)
The Life of Oharu – Kenji Mizoguchi (1952)
Ikiru – Akira Kurosawa (1952)
Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa (1954)
Gojira (a.k.a. Godzilla) – Ishiro Honda (1954)
Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island – Hiroshi Inagaki (1956)
Throne of Blood – Akira Kurosawa (1957)
The Hidden Fortress – Akira Kurosawa (1958)
The Loyal 47 Ronin – Kunio Watanabe (1958)
Life of a Swordsman – Hiroshi Inagaki (1959)
Yojimbo – Akira Kurosawa (1961)
Daredevil in the Castle – Hiroshi Inagaki (1961)
Chushingura – Hiroshi Inagaki (1962)
Sanjuro – Akira Kurosawa (1962)
The Samurai Pirate – Senkichi Taniguchi (1963)
Kwaidan – Masaki Kobayashi (1964)
Samurai Assassin – Kihachi Okamoto (1965)
Three Yakuza – Tadashi Sawashima (1965)
Zatoichi and the Fugitives – Kimiyoshi Yasuda (1968)
Samurai Banners – Hiroshi Inagaki (1969)
Tora-san: Our Lovable Tramp – Yoji Yamada (1969)
Zatoichi's Conspiracy – Kimiyoshi Yasuda (1973)
Kagemusha – Akira Kurosawa (1980)

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