1956 Movies

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the maid Oyasu. S...

A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

Fearless Nadia as Fighting Queen

1956 Japanese film, released in two parts. This is Part One.

Two brothers named Margarito butt heads courting the same woman.

A poor man sells his watch to buy a lottery ticket, advised by a friend, and wins the jackpot.

Family melodrama: manipulative parents ruin lives with their meddling.

Part of BFI collection "Running a Railway."

After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she finds herself torn between her past and a new relat...

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.

The oriole sang on the branch. As soon as the song ended, there was applause. It happily picked a big red flower, and took it to thank the two little...

A feature-length documentary showing the changing world of nature, the sky, the sea, the sun, planets, insects and volcanic action. A story of nature'...

Second half of the 19th century. In a small town in South Bohemia, fifth-former Jan Ratkin is living through the confusions of first love together wit...

Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handba...

Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet helps the communists and they glorify his poem about...

A professor at the University of Frankfurt is mistaken for a Russian soccer player on his arrival at Madrid airport. There, he is received as a sports...

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshi...

Chief editor Shiro Kamisaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. T...

From the time he was a baby, Little Davy Crewcut learns to shoot at bears with a variety of weapons, but when he gets grown and starts taking serious...