List of Japanese films of 1956

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

• The Burmese Harp Nikkatsu 1956 poster.jpg

  The Burmese Harp

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  Nagareru

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  Rodan

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1956
Arashi	Hiroshi Inagaki			Entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival
The Burmese Harp	Kon Ichikawa	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	Yasujiro Ozu	Haruko Sugimura	Drama
Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi	Bin Kado
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			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
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
Sisters of the Gion	Hiromasa Nomura
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
Marason zamurai
Tsukigata Hanpeita
The Renyasai Yagyu Hidden Story	Katsuhiko Tasaka

External links

• Japanese films of 1956 at the Internet Movie Database