List of Japanese films of 1953

A list of films released in Japan in 1953 (see 1953 in film).

• 
  Gate of Hell
• 
  Ugetsu

List

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
1953
Anatahan	Josef von Sternberg	Akemi Negishi, Tadashi Suganuma	War drama
The Eagle of the Pacific	Ishirō Honda	Denjiro Okochi, Toshiro Mifune	War	[1]
Entotsu no mieru basho	Heinosuke Gosho	Ken Uehara, Kinuyo Tanaka	Drama	Entered into the 3rd Berlin International Film Festival
Gate of Hell	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Kazuo Hasegawa, Machiko Kyō, Isao Yamagata	Drama	[2][3]
A Geisha	Kenji Mizoguchi	Michiyo Kogure, Ayako Wakao	Drama
Himeyuri Lily Tower	Tadashi Imai	Kyōko Kagawa, Susumu Fujita	War drama	[4]
Husband and Wife	Mikio Naruse	Ken Uehara, Yoko Sugi	Romance
An Inlet of Muddy Water	Tadashi Imai	Ken Mitsuda, Yoshiko Kuga	Drama	[5][6]
The Last Embrace	Masahiro Makino	Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Toshirō Mifune	Romance
Love Letter	Kinuyo Tanaka	Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga	Drama	Entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival
My Wonderful Yellow Car	Senkichi Taniguchi	Toshiro Mifune		[7]
Kimi no Na wa	Hideo Ōba	Keiji Sada, Keiko Kishi	Romance
Older Brother, Younger Sister	Mikio Naruse	Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori	Drama
Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu	Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura	Drama	[8][9][10]
Ugetsu	Kenji Mizoguchi	Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Eitaro Ozawa	Fantasy	[11][12][13]
Wife	Mikio Naruse	Mieko Takamine, Ken Uehara	Drama

See also

• 1953 in Japan

References

Footnotes

1. "The Eagle of the Pacific".
2. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 178.
3. Erickson, Hal. "Gate of Hell". AllMovie. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
4. "Himeyuri Lily Tower (1953)".
5. "An Inlet of Muddy Water". AllMovie. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
6. "Nigorie".
7. "Toshiro Mifune: Films by Year, Page 1".
8. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 401.
9. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 402.
10. Crow, Jonathan. "Tokyo Story". AllMovie. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
11. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 381.
12. Galbraith IV 1996, p. 382.
13. Crow, Jonathan. "Ugetsu". AllMovie. Retrieved 15 January 2017.

Sources

• Galbraith IV, Stuart (1996). The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0032-3.

External links

• Japanese films of 1953 at the Internet Movie Database