A list of films released in Japan in 1970 (see 1970 in film).
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02013-01-1515 January | Tora-san, His Tender Love | Azuma Morisaki | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Michiyo Aratama, Shin Morikawa | Comedy | 3rd in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series | |
| 02013-01-3131 January | Apart from Life | Kei Kumai | Mizuho Suzuki Hiroko Kino Mugihito |
Drama | Entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival | |
| 02013-02-2727 February | Tora-san's Grand Scheme | Shun'ichi Kobayashi | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Komaki Kurihara | Comedy | 4th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series | |
| 02013-03-2121 March | Gamera vs. Jiger | Noriaki Yuasa | Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Katherine Murphy | Kaiju | Part of the Gamera series | |
| 02013-04-1818 April | The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan | Masahiro Shinoda | Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Shōichi Ozawa | |||
| 02013-04-1818 April | Zankoku onna jōshi | Shōgorō Nishimura | Annu Mari, Sanae Ohori, Jirō Okazaki | |||
| 02013-07-033 July | History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess | Shohei Imamura | Chieko Akaza | Documentary | ||
| 02013-08-011 August | Space Amoeba | Ishirō Honda | Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yukiko Kobayashi | Kaiju | ||
| 02013-08-2626 August | Tora-san's Runaway | Yoji Yamada | Kiyoshi Atsumi, Chieko Baisho, Aiko Nagayama | Comedy | 5th in the Otoko wa Tsurai yo series | |
| 02013-09-011 September | Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter | Yasuharu Hasebe | Meiko Kaji, Rikiya Yasuoka, Tatsuya Fuji | Part of the Stray Cat Rock series | ||
| 02013-09-1515 September | Cleopatra | Eiichi Yamamoto, Osamu Tezuka | Chinatsu Nakayama | Anime | ||
| 02013-09-2525 September | Tora! Tora! Tora! | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku |
Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura |
War | A Japanese-American co-production depicting the Japanese 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor | |
| 02013-10-2424 October | Kazoku | Yoji Yamada | Chieko Baisho, Hisashi Igawa, Chishu Ryu | |||
| 02013-10-3131 October | Dodesukaden | Akira Kurosawa | Yoshitaka Zushi | Drama | Kurosawa's first color film | |
| Sex Jack | Kōji Wakamatsu | Michio Akiyama, Mizako Kaga, Tamaki Katori | ||||
| Live Today, Die Tomorrow! | Kaneto Shindo | Won the Golden Prize at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival |
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