1939 Top_10_Movies

( 1) Tsuchi (Earth)
        Director: Tomu Uchida
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Incomplete (117/142 min., reconstructed longest version)

( 2) Zangiku monogatari
     (The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums)
        Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
        Production Co.: Shôchiku
        Survival Status : Survives

( 3) Tsuchi to heitai (Mud and Soldiers)
        Director: Tomotaka Tasaka
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Incomplete (119/155 min.)

( 4) Ani to sono imoto (A Brother and His Younger Sister)
        Director: Yasujirô Shimazu
        Production Co.: Shôchiku
        Survival Status : Survives

( 5) Shanhai rikusentai (Land Forces in Shanghai)
        Director: Hisatora Kumagai
        Production Co.: Toho
        Survival Status : Survives

( 6) Kodomo no shiki - in two parts (Four Seasons of Children)
        Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
        Production Co.: Shôchiku
        Survival Status : Incomplete (141/153 m, the last reel of each part lost)

( 7) Danryu (Warm Current)
        Director: Kozaburo Yoshimura
        Production Co.: Shôchiku
        Survival Status : Incomplete (reissued abridged version, 124/177 min.)

( 8) Bakuon (The Roar)
        Director: Tomotaka Tasaka
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Survives

( 9) Hana aru zassô (Flowering Weed)
        Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
        Production Co.: Shôchiku
        Survival Status : Lost

(10) Kaientai
        Director: Kichirô Tsuji
        Production Co.: Nikkatsu
        Survival Status : Lost    

The numbers of ranked titles of each Production Co, is as follows:
Nikkatsu : 4 (1, 3, 8 and 10);
Shôchiku : 5 (2, 4, 6, 7 and 9); and
Toho : 1 (5)

"Zangiku monogatari" (2) is available on DVD (Japan_ASIN: B013OUN91E, USA_ASIN: B01H66WAUS, UK_ASIN: B006WPC29O).
"Shanhai rikusentai" (5) is available on DVD (Japan_ASIN: B00T9N5M2A).
"Kodomo no shiki" (6) is available on DVD (Japan_ASIN: B00176FARO (Box set only)).
"Danryu" (7) is available on DVD (Japan_ASIN: B006UQUSXW).
(*)Japanese DVD are not subtitled.
(*) The region code of Japanese or UK's DVD is "2".
(*) The format of UK's DVD is "PAL".