1953 Movies

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that...

A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.

An arsonist-for-hire dubbed "Mr. Matches" has been been torching buildings all around the city. Bernard Frank, head of the fire bureau, knows who he's...

A young girl gets a job at the advanced Komsomol field brigade.

Drama film directed and written by Miguel Contreras Torres.

In this Barney Bear animated short, Barney is plagued by crows.

This merrily musical short film takes a jovial trip across picturesque 1950s Spain aboard the Talgo Express.

A young man will try to escape at any cost from the humble conditions in which he lives in his neighborhood.

The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the show the...

Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is marryin...

Two brothers: one's a cop, one's a gangster.

A girl who is placed by circumstances in corrupt circumstances, learns the craft of pickpocketing, joins a gang that exploits her work, and after a pe...

Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner, settled in Paris with a former stalag mate he'd h...