List of Japanese films of 1957
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A list of films released in Japan in 1957 (see 1957 in film).
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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| 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 Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty | Crime drama | |||||
| The Mysterians | Ishirō Honda | Kenji Sahara | Science fiction | |||
| Ninjutsu (Yagyu Secret Scrolls Part II) | Hiroshi Inagaki | Toshirō Mifune Kōji Tsuruta | Jidaigeki | |||
| 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 | ||
| Snow Country | Shirō Toyoda | Ryo Ikebe Keiko Kishi | Romance | Entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| Throne of Blood | Akira Kurosawa | Toshirō Mifune Isuzu Yamada | Jidaigeki | Called Kumonosu-jō (蜘蛛巣城), meaning Spiderweb Castle, in Japan. | ||
| Yellow Crow | Heinosuke Gosho | Chikage Awashima, Yûnosuke Itô | ||||
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