List of Japanese films of 1957

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A list of films released in Japan in 1957 (see 1957 in film).

1957

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1957
I Am Waiting	Koreyoshi Kurahara		Crime Drama	Produced by the Nikatsu film company]]
Jun'ai monogatari	Tadashi Imai			Won the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin
The Lower Depths	Akira Kurosawa	Toshirō Mifune	Drama
The Mysterians	Ishirō Honda	Kenji Sahara	Science fiction
The Rice People	Tadashi Imai	Hitomi Nakahara Isao Kimura	Drama	Entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, won Best Film at the 8th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the 12th Mainichi Film Awards
Throne of Blood	Akira Kurosawa	Toshirō Mifune Isuzu Yamada	Jidaigeki	Called Kumonosu-jō (蜘蛛巣城), meaning Spiderweb Castle, in Japan.
The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty			Crime drama
Ninjutsu (Yagyu Secret Scrolls Part II)	Hiroshi Inagaki	Toshirō Mifune Kōji Tsuruta	Jidaigeki
Snow Country	Shirō Toyoda	Ryo Ikebe Keiko Kishi	Romance	Entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival
Yellow Crow	Heinosuke Gosho	Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô

External links

• Japanese films of 1957 at the Internet Movie Database