List of Japanese films of 1956

A list of films released in Japan in 1956 (see 1956 in film).

• 
  Nagareru
• 
  Rodan

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1956
Arashi	Hiroshi Inagaki	Chishū Ryū, Kinuyo Tanaka	Drama	Entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival
The Burmese Harp	Kon Ichikawa	Rentarō Mikuni, Shoji Yasui	War	[1]
Crazed Fruit	Kō Nakahira	Masahiko Tsugawa, Yujiro Ishihara	Drama
Crossroads of Death	Umetsugu Inoue	Rentarō Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Hisano Yamaoka, Izumi Ashikawa	Crime
Christ in Bronze	Minoru Shibuya	Eiji Okada, Osamu Takizawa	Drama	Entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival
Dandy Sashichi Detective Story: Six Famous Beauties	Nobuo Nakagawa	Tomisaburô Wakayama, Keiko Hibino, Misako Uji, Kodayû Ichikawa, Shigeru Amachi	Crime
Early Spring	Yasujirō Ozu	Haruko Sugimura, Ryō Ikebe	Drama	[2]
Era of Victory or Defeat	Kyôtarô Namiki	Junko Ikeuchi, Yoichi Numata, Tetsurō Tamba, Ken Utsui	Crime
Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi	Bin Kado	Shintaro Katsu	Horror
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!	Ishirō Honda	Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura	Science-fiction	Japanese-American co-production
King of the Harbor	Seiichirô Uchikawa	Ken Utsui, Naoko Kubo, Shôji Nakayama, Takashi Wada, Utako Mitsuya, Maeda Maeda, Tetsurô Tanba	Crime
King of Violence	Seiichirô Uchikawa	Naoko Kubo, Utako Mitsuya, Shôji Nakayama, Tetsurô Tanba, Ken Utsui	Crime
The Legend of the White Serpent	Shirō Toyoda	Ryō Ikebe, Shirley Yamaguchi		Entered into the 6th Berlin International Film Festival
Mahiru no ankoku	Tadashi Imai			Won Best Film at the 7th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the 11th Mainichi Film Awards
Migratory Birds of the Flowers	Katsuhiko Tasaka
Nagareru	Mikio Naruse	Isuzu Yamada, Kinuyo Tanaka	Drama
Punishment Room	Kon Ichikawa	Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizô Kawasaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Ayako Wakao	Crime	[3]
Revenge of the Pearl Queen	Toshio Shimura	Michiko Maeda, Ken Utsui	Crime
Rodan	Ishirō Honda	Yumi Shirakawa	Science fiction	[4]
Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island	Hiroshi Inagaki	Toshiro Mifune, Kōji Tsuruta		[5][6]
Shuu	Mikio Naruse	Setsuko Hara, Kyōko Kagawa	Drama
Sisters of the Gion	Hiromasa Nomura	Michiyo Kogure, Tamao Nakamura	Drama
Street of Shame	Kenji Mizoguchi	Machiko Kyō, Ayako Wakao	Drama	[7][8]
Victory Is Mine	Seijun Suzuki	Kou Mishima, Ichirō Sugai	Action
Warning from Space	Koji Shima	Toyomi Karita	Science fiction	[9]
Where's Paradise?	Shûe Matsubayashi	Isao Kimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yoichi Numata, Chisako Hara, Yoshi Katô	Crime
Marason zamurai
Tsukigata Hanpeita	Teinosuke Kinugasa			[10]
A Wife's Heart	Mikio Naruse	Toshiro Mifune, Hideko Takamine	Drama
The Renyasai Yagyu Hidden Story	Katsuhiko Tasaka	Raizo Ichikawa, Shintaro Katsu	Drama

See also

• 1956 in Japan

References

1. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 129.
2. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 156-157.
3. "Punishment Room". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 12 May 2017.^{[dead link]}
4. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 340.
5. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 342.
6. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 343.
7. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 373.
8. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 374.
9. Galbraith, Stuart (1994). Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. McFarland. p. 308. ISBN 0-89950-853-7.
10. "Tsukigata Hanpeita".^{[dead link]}

Sources

• Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography. McFarland. p. 303. ISBN 0-89950-853-7.

External links

• Japanese films of 1956 at the Internet Movie Database