1937 Top_10_Movies

( 1) Kagirinaki zenshin (Unending Advance)
        Director: Tomu Uchida
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Incomplete
      (78/99 min., re-edited version,
      the ending has been changed to a happy ending from gloomy one)

( 2) Sôbô (The People)
        Director: Hisatora Kumagaya
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Lost

( 3) Aien kyo (The Straits of Love and Hate)
        Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
        Production Co.: Shinko
        Survival Status : Incomplete (90/108 min.)

( 4) Kaze no naka no kodomo (Children in the Wind)
        Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
        Production Co.: Shôchiku
        Survival Status : Survives (86/89 min.)

( 5) Hadaka no machi (The Naked Town)
        Director: Tomu Uchida
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Lost

( 6) Wakai hito (Young People)
        Director: Shiro Toyoda
        Production Co.: Tokyo Hassei (Toho)
        Survival Status : Survives (a few scenes lost)

( 7) Ninjô kami fûsen (Ballad of the Paper Balloons)
        Director: Sadao Yamanaka
        Production Co.: P.C.L (Toho)
        Survival Status : Survives

( 8) Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka (What Did the Lady Forget?)
        Director: Yasujirô Ozu
        Production Co.: Shôchiku
        Survival Status : Survives (a few scenes lost)

( 9) Ôsaka natsu no jin
     (Summer Campaign of the Siege of Osaka)
        Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
        Production Co.: Shôchiku
        Survival Status : Lost

(10) Asakusa no hi (The Lights of Asakusa)
        Director: Yasujirô Shimazu
        Production Co.: Shôchiku
        Survival Status : Incomplete (77/104 min.)

The numbers of ranked titles of each Production Co, is as follows:
Nikkatsu : 3 (1, 2 and 5);
Shôchiku : 4 (4 and 8 to 10);
Toho : 2 (6 and 7); and
Shinko : 1 (3).

"Aien kyo" (3) is available on DVD (Japan_ASIN: B0009P0GPA).
"Kaze no naka no kodomo" (4) is available on DVD (Japan_ASIN: B00BKS3SLE).
"Shukujo wa nani o wasureta ka" (8) is available on DVD
(Japan_ ASIN: B00C2DX74O, UK_ASIN: B0038409YM).
(*) None of Japanese DVD is subtitled.
(*) The region code of Japanese or UK's DVD is "2".
(*) The format of UK's or French DVD is "PAL".