| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| All Is Well | Toshio Sugie | Toshiro Mifune, Asami Kuji, Akira Takarada | — | |
| All is Well Part 2 | Toshio Sugie | Toshiro Mifune, Asami Kuji, Akira Takarada | — | |
| The Eternal Breasts | Kinuyo Tanaka | Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryoji Hayama | Drama, biopic | |
| Floating Clouds | Mikio Naruse | Hideko Takemine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada | Drama | |
| A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love |
Teinosuke Kinugasa | Kazuo Hasegawa
Ayako Wakao, Raizo Ichikawa | | |
| Godzilla Raids Again | Motoyoshi Oda | Hiroshi Koizumi, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura | — | |
| Half Human | Ishirō Honda | Momoko Kouchi, Akira Takarada | — | |
| Hatsukoi wautsu | Kenta Kimoto | Kyoko Aoyama, Akira Takarada, Kenichi "Enoken" Enomoto, Kingoro Yanagiya | — | |
| Hatsuwarai sokonuke tabi niki | Nobuo Aoyagi | Kenichi "Enoken" Enomoto, Kingoro Yanagiya, Tony Tani | — | |
| The Heart | Kon Ichikawa | Masayuki Mori, Michiyo Aratama | Drama | |
| I Live in Fear | Akira Kurosawa | Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki | Drama | |
| The Immortal Pitcher | Hideo Suzuki | Ryō Ikebe, Yoko Tsukasa, Chishū Ryū | — | |
| Jyazu musume kanpai | Umetsugu Inoue | Chiemi Eri, Izumi Yukimura, Junzaburo Ban | — | |
| Love Never Fails | Shiro Toyoda | Akira Kubo, Kyoko Aoyama, Yoichi Tachikawa | Drama | |
| Lovetide | Ishirō Honda | Ryō Ikebe, Hiroshi Koizumi, Fubuki Koshiji | | |
| A Man Among Men | Kaijiro Yamamoto | Kōji Tsuruta, Toshiro Mifune, Mariko Okada | Crime thriller | |
| Ningyo Sashichi torimonocho - Mekura okami | Masahiro Makino | Hiroshi Koizumi, Jun Tazaki, Takashi Shimura | — | |
| No Response from Car 33 | Senkichi Taniguchi | Ryō Ikebe, Yoko Tsukasa, Takashi Shimura | Crime drama | |
| No Time for Tears | Seiji Maruyama | Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Mariko Okada | Drama | |
| Owarai torimonocho - Hatchant hatsutegara | Nobuo Aoyagi | Kenichi "Enoken" Enomoto, Kingoror Yanagiya, Roppa Furukawa | — | |
| The Phantom Horse | Koji Shima | Ayako Wakao, Yoshiro Kitahara | Drama | Entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival |
| Princess Yang Kwei-Fei | Kenji Mizoguchi | Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori | Historical drama | |
| The Rookie Manager | Hideo Suzuki | Ryō Ikebe, Izumi Yukimura, Kamatari Fujiwara | — | |
| Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple | Hiroshi Inagaki | Toshirō Mifune, Kōji Tsuruta | — | |
| Taira Clan Saga | Kenji Mizoguchi | Raizo Ichikawa, Tamao Nakamura | Drama | |
| A Spring of Happiness | Masanori Kakei | Ineko Arima, Jun Negami, Mieko Takamine | — | |
| Tomorrow's Happiness | Shunkai Mizuho | Ken Uehara, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yoshiko Kuga | — | |
| Yancha musume gyojoki | Kunio Watanabe | Kyoko Aoyama, Kenichi "Enoken" Enomoto, Kingoro Yanagiya | — | |
| Yokihi | Kenji Mizoguchi | Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori | Drama | |
| Yuki no hono | Jin Usami | Yoko Tsukasa, So Yamamura, Akira Takarada | — | |
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