1956 Movies

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

Japanese youth film about kendo.

Wally and Eddie are on their way to Reno to win enough money to pay for a little boy's operation. On the way, their car is stolen by two girls and the...

A look at the history of jazz, which has its origins in the music of Africans enslaved to North America 300 years ago.

Luis Aguilar heads the cast in this story of a band of outlaws whose exploits are more fun than negligible.

A couple in love interacts across a multitude of environments.

Spouses Vojta and Růžena Koskub are an ideal couple: they both love each other and are both doing well at work. But six months after their wedding, th...

A father and his estranged son, both tunnel workers in New York City, are forced to deal with each other during a dangerous collapse.

A rich businessman, Dayashankar Kumar (Shivraj),who is a widow, lives with his two young sons Ashok and Raj. When he catches the younger boy Raj stea...

Kind-hearted Mr. Rzepka has a weakness for alcohol. Under the influence of strong drinks, he experiences a duality in his shape and shadow. This shado...

In the Kyōhō era under the Tokugawa shogunate, a conspiracy to usurp the household unfolded at Shinshū Kurohime Castle. The lord, Yūki Takanobu (playe...

Andy's life is made miserable by his brother-in-laws penchant for crazy inventions.

A naive girl just out of a cloistered orphanage finds that being a 'good fairy' to strangers makes life awfully complicated.

Study for Film No. 11: Mirror Animations (1957). Harry Smith described the film as, “An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of a colla...

The story revolves around a group of hardened bachelors who meet regularly, and eventually settle for marriage. Purna is a newcomer to the group of ba...

This short film focuses on the evolving country of Ecuador.