| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Bokyaku no hanabira (kanketsu hen) | Toshio Sugie | Yoko Tsukasa, Hiroshi Koizumi, Mitsuko Kusabue | Drama | |
| Brothers of the Angry Waves | Toshio Shimura | Asao Matsumoto, Kikuko Hanaoka, Shôji Nakayama, Michiko Maeda | Crime | |
| The Blue Sky Maiden | Yasuzô Masumura | Ayako Wakao, Keizô Kawasaki, Kenji Sugawara | Comedy drama | |
| Chieko sho | Hisatora Kumagai | Setusko Hara, So Yamamura, Kyoko Aoyama | Drama | |
| Cordon at Dawn | Kiyoshi Komori | Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Yôichi Numata, Utako Mitsuya | Crime | |
| The Crowded Streetcar | Kon Ichikawa | Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Chishū Ryū | Drama | [2] |
| Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp | Katsuhiko Tasaka | | | [3] |
| Ghost Ship | Teija Matsuda | Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ryutaro Otomo, Ryunosuke Tsukigata | —N/a | |
| Godzilla, King of the Monsters! |
Ishirō Honda |
Raymond Burr, Momoko Kōchi, Akira Takarada |
|
released in japan on May 29, 1957 |
| Gojo oyaji pinboke musuko | Motoyoshi Oda | Kingoro Makino, Peggy Hayama, Ichiro Arishima | —N/a | |
| Gojo oyaji to doremiha musume | Motoyoshi Oda | Kingoro Yanagiya, Peggy Hayama, Ichiro Arishima | —N/a | |
| Hadaka no machi | Seiji Hisamatsu | Ryō Ikebe, Chikage Awashima, Keiko Awaji | —N/a | |
| The Hole | Kon Ichikawa | Machiko Kyō, Eiji Funakoshi | Comedy | |
| I Am Waiting | Koreyoshi Kurahara | Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara | Crime | |
| Jun'ai monogatari | Tadashi Imai | Shinjirō Ehara | Crime | [citation needed] |
| Kisses | Yasuzō Masumura | Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe, Aiko Mimasu, Eitaro Ozawa | Drama | |
| The Lower Depths | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Ganjirō Nakamura | Drama | |
| The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty | Kyotaro Namiki | Shoji Nakayama | Horror | |
| The Mysterians | Ishirō Honda | Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kochi | Science Fiction | |
| Nijūkyū-nin no Kenka-jō | Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Raizo Ichikawa | Drama | [citation needed] |
| Nude Actress Murder Five Criminals | Teruo Ishii | Ken Utsui, Yōko Mihara | Crime | |
| On Wings of Love | Toshio Sugie | Hibari Misora, Chiemi Eri, Izumi Yukimura | Musical | |
| An Osaka Story | Kōzaburō Yoshimura | Raizo Ichikawa, Kyōko Kagawa | Drama | [citation needed] |
| Reign of Terror | Shigeaki Hidaka | Akira Takarada, Yumi Shirakawa, Kyoko Anzai | Crime | |
| Secret Scrolls (Part I) | Hiroshi Inagaki | Toshirō Mifune, Kōji Tsuruta, Yoshiko Kuga | —N/a | |
| The Rice People | Tadashi Imai | Hitomi Nakahara, Isao Kimura | Drama | [citation needed] |
| Snow Country | Shirō Toyoda | Keiko Kishi, Ryō Ikebe, Kaoru Yachigusa | Drama | |
| Throne of Blood | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki | Jidaigeki | |
| Tokyo Twilight | Yasujirō Ozu | Setsuko Hara, Isuzu Yamada, Chishū Ryū | Drama | |
| Untamed | Mikio Naruse | Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara | Drama | |
| Wagamune no niji wa kiezu (dai ichibu) | Ishirō Honda | Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akemi Negishi | —N/a | |
| Wakare no chatsumi uta | Ishirō Honda | Yoshio Kosugi, Chiyoko Shimakura, Chikage Ogi | —N/a | |
| Warm Current | Yasuzô Masumura | Jun Negami, Sachiko Hidari, Hitomi Nozoe, Eiji Funakoshi | Drama | |
| Yellow Crow | Heinosuke Gosho | Chikage Awashima, Yūnosuke Itō | Drama | [14] |