List of Japanese films of 1958

A list of films released in Japan in 1958 (see 1958 in film).

Japanese films released in 1958

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
Nichiren to mōko daishūrai	Kunio Watanabe
The Loyal 47 Ronin	Kunio Watanabe
Anzukko	Mikio Naruse	Sou Yamamura Kyoko Kagawa	Drama
The Ballad of Narayama	Keisuke Kinoshita			Won Best Film at the 9th Blue Ribbon Awards
Black Cat Mansion	Nakagawa, NobuoNobuo Nakagawa	Toshio Hosokawa, Midori Chikuma, Fuji Satsuki	N/A	[1]
A Boy and Three Mothers	Seiji Hisamatsu	Terumi Niki Isuzu Yamada
A Bridge for Us Alone	Seiji Maruyama	Akira Kubo Daisuke Kato	Drama
Endless Desire	Shohei Imamura	Shizuko Kasagi
Equinox Flower	Yasujiro Ozu	Shin Saburi Kinuyo Tanaka	Drama
Giants and Toys	Yasuzo Masumura	Hiroshi Kawaguchi	Comedy
Ghost-Cat Wall of Hatred	Kenji Misumi
The Gay Masquerade	Daisuke Itō
The H-Man	Ishirō Honda	Yumi Shirakawa	Science fiction
Herringbone Clouds (Summer Clouds)	Mikio Naruse	Kyoko Kagawa Michiyo Aratama	Drama
The Hidden Fortress	Akira Kurosawa	Toshirō Mifune	Samurai	Kurosawa won the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin, won Best Film at the 13th Mainichi Film Awards
Hitogui Ama ("Cannibal Ama")	Yoshiki Onoda	Yōko Mihara	Shintoho ama film
A Holiday in Tokyo	Kajiro Yamamoto	Yoshiko Yamaguchi Toshirō Mifune	Drama
In Front of Nishi Ginza Station	Shohei Imamura	Frank Nagai	Drama
Josei S.O.S.	Hisanobu Marubayashi	Yumi Shirakawa Yoshio Tsuchiya
Muhomatsu, the Rikshaw Man	Hiroshi Inagaki	Toshirō Mifune Hideko Takamine	Drama
Naked Sun	Miyoji Ieki			Entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival
Rat Kid on Journey	Hiroshi Inagaki	Kōji Tsuruta Mitsuko Kusabue	Jidaigeki
Rickshaw Man	Hiroshi Inagaki	Toshirō Mifune Hideko Takamine	Drama
The Snowy Heron	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Fujiko Yamamoto Keizo Kawasaki		Entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival
Song for a Bride	Ishirō Honda	Mitsuko Kusabue Akemi Negishi
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Stolen Desire	Shohei Imamura	Osamu Takizawa		Imamura's directorial debut
The Temptress and the Monk	Eisuke Takizawa			Entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival
Theater of Life (Jinsei gekijo - Seishun hen)	Toshio Sugie	Ryo Ikebe Hisaya Morishige	Drama
Tora's Home Run	Motoyoshi Oda	Kingoro Yanagiya Ichiro Arishima	Comedy
Underworld Beauty	Seijun Suzuki		Crime
Varan the Unbelievable
Voice Without a Shadow	Seijun Suzuki	Hideaki Nitani	Mystery
Yaji and Kita On the Road	Yasuki Chiba	Keiju Kobayashi Daisuke Kato	Comedy
Young Daughters	Kihachi Okamoto	Izumi Yukimura Daisuke Kato	Drama
Young Breasts	Seijun Suzuki	Akira Kobayashi	Drama
Zenta and the Three Tales: Child in the Wind
Zenta and the Three Tales: The World of Ghosts

References

Footnotes

1. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 120.

Sources

• 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 1461673747. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
• Foster, Michael Dylan (2008). Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai. University of California Press. ISBN 0520942671. Retrieved May 25, 2015.

External links

• Japanese films of 1958 at the Internet Movie Database