Japanese Movie Database lists 391 films released in Japan during 1964. The five major studios released 346 feature films this year, of which 151 were in color; 220 were gendai-geki, set in the modern era, and 53 were jidai-geki, set in historical times. Film critic Tadao Satō names as significant releases of the year, Film critic Tadao Satō names as significant releases of the year, Shōhei Imamura's Intentions of Murder, Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan, Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes, Tomu Uchida's A Fugitive from the Past, Eiichi Kudō's The Great Melee, and Masahiro Shinoda's Assassination.