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{{Japan film list}}
A list of [[films]] released in [[Japan]] in 1959 (see [[1959 in film]]).
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Japanese films released in [[1959 in film|1959]]
|-
! scope="col" | Title
! scope="col" | Director
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| Cast
! scope="col" | Genre
! scope="col" | Notes
|-
|''[[Battle in Outer Space]]''||{{sortname|Ishirō|Honda}}||[[Ryō Ikebe]], [[Kyoko Anzai]], [[Minoru Takada]]||Science fiction||{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=112}}{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=113}}
|-
|''[[Beauty Is Guilty]]'' || [[Yasuzo Masumura]] || [[Ayako Wakao]], [[Fujiko Yamamoto]] || Romance || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film520895.html|title = Beauty is Guilty (1959)}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2017}}
|-
|''Beni azami'' || || || ||
|-
|''Enchanted Princess'' || || [[Ayako Wakao]], [[Raizo Ichikawa]] || Fantasy || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.movie-trailer.co.uk/trailers/1959/enchanted-princess/|title = Enchanted Princess (1959) - Official HD Trailer}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2017}}
|-
|''[[The Birth of Japan]]''||[[Hiroshi Inagaki]]||[[Yoko Tsukasa]]|| ||
|-
|''[[Fires on the Plain (1959 film)|Fires on the Plain]]''||{{sortname|Kon|Ichikawa}}||[[Eiji Funakoshi]], [[Osamu Takizawa]], [[Mickey Curtis]]|| War drama{{notinsource|date=July 2017}} ||{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=166}}
|-
|''[[Floating Weeds]]''||{{sortname|Yasujirō|Ozu}}||[[Ganjirō Nakamura]], [[Haruko Sugimura]], [[Hiroshi Kawaguchi (actor)|Hiroshi Kawaguchi]]|| Drama{{notinsource|date=July 2017}} ||{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=168}}
|-
|{{sort|Ghost of Yotsuya|''[[The Ghost of Yotsuya]]''}}||{{sortname|Nobuo|Nakagawa}}||[[Shigeru Amachi]], [[Noriko Kitazawa]], [[Kazuko Wakasugi]]||{{n/a}}||{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=182}}
|-
|''[[Good Morning (1959 film)|Good Morning]]''||{{sortname|Yasujirō|Ozu}}||[[Koji Shidara]], [[Masahiko Shimazu]], [[Chishū Ryū]]|| Comedy{{notinsource|date=July 2017}} ||{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=312}}
|-
|''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]''||{{sortname|Alain|Resnais}}||[[Emmanuelle Riva]], [[Eiji Okada]], [[Bernard Fresson]]|| Drama{{notinsource|date=July 2017}} ||French-Japanese co-production{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=216}}
|-
|{{sort|Human Condition|''[[The Human Condition (film series)|The Human Condition]]''}}||{{sortname|Masaki|Kobayashi}}||[[Tatsuya Nakadai]], [[Michiyo Aratama]], [[So Yamamura]]||{{n/a}}||{{sfn|Galbraith IV|1996|p=221}}
|-
|''[[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 (film)|Magic Boy]]'' ||{{sortname|Akira|Daikubara}}, [[Taiji Yabushita]] || || Fantasy adventure ||Animated film{{sfn|Beck|2005|p=158}}
|-
|''Monkey Sun'' || [[Kajiro Yamamoto]] || [[Norihei Miki]], [[Fukutaro Ichikawa]] || Fantasy || <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tohokingdom.com/movies/monkey_sun.htm|title=Monkey Sun}}</ref>{{unreliable source|date=July 2017}}
|-
|''[[My Second Brother]]''||[[Shohei Imamura]]|| [[Hiroyuki Nagato]]|| ||{{fact|date=July 2017}}
|-
|''[[Odd Obsession]]''||{{sortname|Kon|Ichikawa}}||[[Machiko Kyō]], [[Ganjirō Nakamura]], [[Junko Kano]] ||{{n/a}}||{{sfn|Beck|2005|p=311}}
|-
|''[[Samurai Vendetta]]'' || [[Kazuo Mori]] || [[Raizo Ichikawa]], [[Shintaro Katsu]] || ||
|-
|''Seki no yatappe'' || [[Satoshi Kado]] || [[Kazuo Hasegawa]], [[Shintaro Katsu]] || [[Chambara]] || <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-yatappe.html|title = Reviews: Seki no Yatappe &#91;and&#93; Nihiki no yojimbo}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2017}}
|-
|''[[Unforgettable Trail]]''|| [[Koji Shima]]|| [[Fujiko Yamamoto]] || Drama ||{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2017}}
|-
|}
==See also==
*[[1959 in Japan]]
== References ==
===Footnotes===
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===Sources===
{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite book |last=Beck |first=Jerry |title=The Animated Movie Guide |url=https://archive.org/details/animatedmoviegui0000beck |url-access=registration |publisher=Chicago Review Press |date=2005 |isbn=1569762228}}
* {{cite book |last=Galbraith IV |first=Stuart |title=The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994 |publisher=McFarland |date=1996 |isbn=0-7864-0032-3 }}
* {{cite book |last=Galbraith IV |first=Stuart |title=The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7o8pq6G_dYC |access-date=October 29, 2013 |year=2008 |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |isbn=978-1461673743}}
{{Refend}}
==External links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/search/title?at=0&countries=jp&sort=alpha&title_type=feature&year=1959,1959 Japanese films of 1959] at the [[Internet Movie Database]]
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