1961 Japanese films

is a 1961 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.

1961 Japanese adventure/sci-fi film directed by Ishirō Honda

1961 film by Yasujirō Ozu

1961 film by Shūe Matsubayashi

1961 film by Keisuke Kinoshita

1961 film by Yves Ciampi

1961 film by Shōhei Imamura

1961 film directed by Kinuyo Tanaka

1961 film by Koji Ota

1961 film directed by Mikio Naruse

1961 film by Hiroshi Inagaki

1961 film by Nagisa Ōshima

television series

1961 Japanese film directed by Susumu Hani

1961 film directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda