1956 Movies

The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant f...

In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth shogun...

Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which...

An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An A...

When the owner of a stagecoach station is killed, a gunman takes his place.

A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of young...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith whe...

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he sta...

A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impe...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Toruhan, a king’s retainer, embarks on a journey to find a royal treasure that can only be revealed though secret codes hidden in seven crosses carrie...

10th film in the series about Lord Mito. This time, Lord Mito uncovers a conspiracy in Naruto.

With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of war....

Den Shichi of Kurodomon-chō, the best detective in Edo, captured members of a thief gang called "Kitsutsuki," but let three, including the rōnin Daiko...