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, Ryo 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 | Ryo 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 | N/A | N/A | [1] |
Rodan | Ishirō Honda | Yumi Shirakawa | Science fiction | First kaiju film in color. First appearance of Rodan |
Samurai III: Duel At Ganryu Island | Hiroshi Inagaki | Toshiro Mifune, Koji 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 | [2] |
Marason zamurai | | | |
Tsukigata Hanpeita | Teinosuke Kinugasa | | | [3] |
A Wife's Heart | Mikio Naruse | Toshiro Mifune, Hideko Takamine | Drama | |
The Renyasai Yagyu Hidden Story | Katsuhiko Tasaka | Raizo Ichikawa, Shintaro Katsu | Drama | |