List of Japanese films of 1959

A list of films released in Japan in 1959 (see 1959 in film).

Japanese films released in 1959
Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
Battle in Outer Space	Ishirō Honda	Ryō Ikebe, ,	Science fiction	^[1]^[2]
	Yasuzo Masumura	Ayako Wakao, Fujiko Yamamoto	Romance	^[3]^{[unreliable source?]}
Beni azami
Enchanted Princess		Ayako Wakao, Raizo Ichikawa	Fantasy	^[4]^{[unreliable source?]}
The Birth of Japan	Hiroshi Inagaki	Yoko Tsukasa
Fires on the Plain	Kon Ichikawa	Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis	War drama^{[failed verification]}	^[5]
Floating Weeds	Yasujirō Ozu	Ganjirō Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi	Drama^{[failed verification]}	^[6]
The Ghost of Yotsuya	Nobuo Nakagawa	Shigeru Amachi, ,	N/A	^[7]
Good Morning	Yasujirō Ozu	, , Chishū Ryū	Comedy^{[failed verification]}	^[8]
Hiroshima mon amour	Alain Resnais	Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson	Drama^{[failed verification]}	French-Japanese co-production^[9]
The Human Condition	Masaki Kobayashi	Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, So Yamamura	N/A	^[10]
Kiku to Isamu	Tadashi Imai	Tanie Kitabayashi		Won Best Film at the 14th Mainichi Film Awards and at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards
Magic Boy	,		Fantasy adventure	Animated film^[11]
Monkey Sun	Kajiro Yamamoto	,	Fantasy	^[12]^{[unreliable source?]}
My Second Brother	Shohei Imamura	Hiroyuki Nagato		^{[citation needed]}
Odd Obsession	Kon Ichikawa	Machiko Kyō, Ganjirō Nakamura,	N/A	^[13]
Samurai Vendetta	Kazuo Mori	Raizo Ichikawa, Shintaro Katsu
Seki no yatappe		Kazuo Hasegawa, Shintaro Katsu	Chambara	^[14]^{[unreliable source?]}
Unforgettable Trail	Koji Shima	Fujiko Yamamoto	Drama	^{[unreliable source?]}

References[]

Beck, Jerry (2005). The Animated Movie Guide. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 1569762228.
Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0032-3.
Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743. Retrieved October 29, 2013.