List of Japanese films of 1971
A list of films released in Japan in 1971.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 3000 kiro no wana | Jiro Tamiya, Mie Hama, Kaori Taniguchi | |||
| Ame wa shitte ita | Keiko Torii, Yoko Minamikaze, Toshio Kurosawa | |||
| Animal Treasure Island | Hiroshi Ikeda | Minori Matsushima, Asao Koike, Hitoshi Takagi | Anime | Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island |
| Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon | Kazuko Shirakawa | |||
| Atakku No.1–Namida no fuschichyo | Animated feature film | |||
| Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuya Nakadai | War | |||
| Beat '71 | Meiko Kaji, Takeo Chii, Yoshio Inaba | |||
| Castle Orgies | Setsuko Ogawa | |||
| Chimimoryo: A Soul of Demons | Akaji Maro, Hiroko Ogi, Kazuko Ineno | |||
| Choeki Taro: Mamushi no Kyodai | ||||
| The Ceremony | Nagisa Oshima | Kenzo Kawarasaki, Kei Satō, Atsuko Kaku | ||
| Coed Report: Yuko's White Breasts | Yuko Katagiri | |||
| Damasarete noraiurasu | Hitoshi Ueki, Hajime Hana, Cha Kato | |||
| Dare no tame ni aisuruka | Wakako Sakai, Yūzō Kayama, Mitsuko Mori | |||
| Emperor Tomato Ketchup | Goro Abashiri, Tarō Apollo, Shiro Demaemochi | |||
| Futari dake no asa | Yusuke Okada, Shiro Mifune, Ryoko Nakano | |||
| Gamera vs. Zigra | Gloria Zoellner, Arlene Zoellner, Koji Fujiyama | |||
| Go! Go! Kamen Rider | Hiroshi Fujioka | Tokusatsu | Movie version of Kamen Rider episode 13 | |
| Godzilla vs. Hedorah | Akira Yamauchi, Toshie Kimura, Hiroyuki Kawase | |||
| Hajimete no tabi | Yusuke Okada, Choei Takahashi, Kazuyo Mori | |||
| Hashire! Kotaro-Otoko dakara nakusa | Shunji Fujimura, Chigusa Go, Tonpei Hidari | Comedy | ||
| Hibari no subete | Hibari Misora, Takahiro Tamura, Kazuro Nakagawa | Documentary | ||
| Inakappe taisho | Animated short film | |||
| Inakappe taisho–Neko no arukeba suzume ni ataru dasu–Ataru mo ataru mo toki no un dasu | ||||
| Inn of Evil | Kanemon Nakamura, Komaki Kurihara, Kei Satō | |||
| Kaette kita Urutoraman | Jiro Dan, Shin Kishida, Nobuo Tsukamoto | |||
| Kaette kita Urutoraman–Tatsumaki kaiju no kyofu | Jiro Dan, Shin Kishida, Nobuo Tsukamoto | |||
| Kamui gaiden | Documentary | Animated film | ||
| Kaoyaku | ||||
| Keiji monogatari–Kyodai no okite | Kunie Tanaka, Yūzō Kayama, Senri Kurihara | |||
| Kigeki Omedetai yatsu | Kon Omura, Hiroshi Tachibana, Tadao Takashima | Comedy | ||
| Kigeki Kinow no teki wa kyo mo teki | Masaaki Sakai, Chosuke Ikariya, Kyoko Yoshizawa | |||
| Kigeki San oku en saisakusen | Jiro Tamiya, Norihei Miki, Haruko Wanibuchi | Comedy | ||
| Kitsune no kureta akanbo | ||||
| Koibitotte yabasete | Kyoko Yoshizawa, Isao Natsuyagi, Hiroshi Ishikawa | |||
| Konchyu monogatari–Minashigo Hattchi–Otsuki sama no mama | Animated short film | |||
| Konchyu monogatari–Minashigo Hattchi–Wassure nagosa ni negai o komete | Animated short | |||
| Lake of Dracula | Midori Fujita, Sanae Emi, Choei Takahashi | Horror | ||
| Maboroshi no satsui | Keiju Kobayashi, Ayako Wakao, Kankuro Nakamura | |||
| Macchi uro no shyojo | Short puppet animation | |||
| Minamata: The Victims and Their World | Noriaki Tsuchimoto | Documentary | ||
| Muumin | Animated short film | |||
| Nippon ichi no shokku otoko | Hitoshi Ueki, Wakako Sakai, Kei Tani | |||
| Okite koronde mata okite | Masaaki Sakai, Chosuke Ikariya, Kyoko Yoshizawa | |||
| Okusama wa 18 sai–Shinkon kyoshitsu | Yuki Okazaki, Tetsuo Ishidate, Jo Shishido | |||
| Onna no hanamichi | Hibari Misora, Takahiro Tamura, Kazuo Nakagawa | |||
| Saredo warera ga hibi–Wakare no uta | Tomoko Ogawa, Takashi Yamaguchi, Midori Fujita | |||
| Shiosai | Itsuto Asahina, Midori Onozato, Miki Odagiri | |||
| Showa hitoketa shacho tai futaketa shacho–Getsu Getsu Ka Sui Moku Kin Kin | Keiju Kobayashi, Wakako Sakai, Eijirō Tōno | |||
| Showa hitoketa shacho tai futaketa shacho | Keiju Kobayashi, Wakako Sakai, Toshio Kurosawa | |||
| Silence | Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tamba, David Lampson | |||
| Sogoi yatsura | Yosuke Natsuki, Toshio Kurosawa, Reiko Dan | |||
| A Soul to Devils | Nobuko Tashiro | Drama | Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Swords of Death | Kinnosuke Yorozuya, Rentarō Mikuni, Hideko Okiyama | |||
| Sympathy for the Underdog | Kōji Tsuruta, Noboru Ando | Crime | ||
| To Love Again | Renaud Verley, Ruriko Asaoka, Tetsuo Ishidate | |||
| Tora-san's Shattered Romance | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 6th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series | |
| Tora-san, the Good Samaritan | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 7th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series | |
| Tora-san's Love Call | Kiyoshi Atsumi | Comedy | 8th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series | |
| Tatsuya Nakadai, Noboru Ando, Toshio Kurosawa | Crime | |||
| Young Guy, The Ace Rider | Yūzō Kayama, Shigeru Oya, Kunie Tanaka | |||
| Yuhi-kun–Sarariiman oashutsu | Osami Nabe, Junzaburo Ban, Hiroko Nori | |||
| Zatoichi Meets the One Armed Swordsman | Shintaro Katsu, Jimmy Wang Yu, Yuko Hamada | Japanese-Hong Kong co-production |