| 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 |
|
| Crazed Fruit |
Kō Nakahira |
Masahiko Tsugawa, Yujiro Ishihara |
Drama |
|
| Christ in Bronze |
Minoru Shibuya |
Eiji Okada, Osamu Takizawa |
Drama |
Entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Early Spring |
Yasujirō Ozu |
Haruko Sugimura, Ryō Ikebe |
Drama |
|
| 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
|
| 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 |
— |
— |
[3]
|
| Rodan |
Ishirō Honda |
Yumi Shirakawa |
Science fiction |
|
| Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island |
Hiroshi Inagaki |
Toshiro Mifune, Kōji Tsuruta |
|
|
| 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 |
|
| Victory Is Mine |
Seijun Suzuki |
Kou Mishima, Ichirō Sugai |
Action |
|
| Warning from Space |
Koji Shima |
Toyomi Karita |
Science fiction |
[9]
|
| 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 |
|
