Sanshiro Sugata – Akira Kurosawa (1943)
Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two – Akira Kurosawa (1945)
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail – Akira Kurosawa (1945)
Ronin Gai – Masahiro Makino (1957)
The Hidden Fortress – Akira Kurosawa (1958)
The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity – Masaki Kobayashi (1959)
Chuji the Gambler – Senkichi Taniguchi (1960)
The Bad Sleep Well – Akira Kurosawa (1960)
Yakuza of Ina – Masahiro Makino (1960)
Yojimbo – Akira Kurosawa (1961)
Daredevil in the Castle – Hiroshi Inagaki (1961)
Chushingura – Hiroshi Inagaki (1962)
High and Low – Akira Kurosawa (1963)
Samurai Assassin – Kihachi Okamoto (1965)

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