Isaac Films
1950s Films
A curated collection of 1950s films in the Isaac Films archive.
478 films in this collection
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2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll
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3:10 to Yuma
Delmer Daves
Talkative Wife
Nobuo Aoyagi
Tanuki Ginza o aruku
Bin Katō
Tarpuy
Teófilo Hinostroza
Teenage Secrets
Shigeo Nakaki
Tekka bugyō
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Ten Little Pinups
Rex Carlton
Tenament Party for Edo-ites
Torajirō Saitō
Tengu Kurama: A Strong Wind Through 808 Villages
Toshio Shimura
Tenka o nerau bishōnen
Ryohei Arai
Tenpō suiko-den: Tone no himatsuri
Nobuo Adachi
Tenraku no shishū
Bin Katō
Terror Stalks by Night
Toshio Shimura
Tetsuro no dankon
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut
The 50 Greatest Cartoons
The Actress and the Detective
Yūzō Kawashima
The Affair 55 Years Later
Nobuo Aoyagi
The Aristocrat's Stairs
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
The Ascent of Rakaposhi
Jimmy Mills, Mike Banks
The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born
Motoyoshi Oda
The Band in Paradise: Acharaka's Big Hit
Motoyoshi Oda
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8½
Federico Fellini
Easy-Going Married Couple
Toshio Sugie
Employee with the Secret Savings and the Autocrat Company President: The Employee with the Secret Savings Fights Bravely
Motoyoshi Oda
Employee with the Secret Savings and the Autocrat President: The Autocrat President's Pure Heart
Motoyoshi Oda
Enoshima Elegy
Eiichi Koishi
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
Eiichi Koishi
Estampas Cusqueñas
Manuel Chambi
Europa '51
Roberto Rossellini
Everyone's Sweetheart
Shunkai Mizuho
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A Girl Who Delivers Happiness
Keigo Kimura
A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival
Nobuo Aoyagi
A Long, Comic Story of Houses in Their Prime
Nobuo Aoyagi
A Man Escaped
Robert Bresson
A Man's Flower Path
Taizō Fuyushima
A Salaryman's Ten Commandments
Eiji Iwashiro
A Song of Memory
Motoyoshi Oda
A Town of the Starry Skies
Motoyoshi Oda
A Woman's Heart
Seiji Maruyama
A Young Lady on Her Way
Kajirō Yamamoto
Abare noshi
Nobuo Adachi
Achako's Diary: Bride-Catching Test
Nobuo Aoyagi
Achako's Diary: Children Who Spoil Their Children Go to Heaven
Nobuo Aoyagi
Affair Trip
Toshio Sugie
Aizenbashi
Akira Nobuchi
Akōgishi
Ryohei Arai
Akutarō uridasu
Ryohei Arai
Alfie
All about Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
All That Heaven Allows
Douglas Sirk
Ame nimomakezu
Iseo Hirukawa
An Angel Dreams Too
Yūzō Kawashima
Anmitsu Princess: Story of the Magic Competition
Shigeo Nakaki
Aru yoru no dekigoto
Kōji Shima
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Big Edo's 1,000 Ryo Festival
Nobuo Aoyagi
Big Laugh Festival of the Edo-ites
Billy Liar
Birth of a Jazz Star
Motoo Nishimura
Bollywood
Boshisen
Ren Yoshimura
Bottomless Ninjutsu War
Torajirō Saitō
Bottomless Ninjutsu War: I'll Disapppear
Torajirō Saitō
Bōya monogatari
Eiichi Koishi
Brecht Urfaust
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Brotherly Love
Seiji Maruyama
Brussels World's Fair
Bugs Bunny
Bungeishunjū
Byakuran kōran
Shigeo Nakaki
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Careful Wife and Careless Wife: A Peaceful Couple
Nobuo Aoyagi
Castle of Carnage
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Chakkiri Kinta Sequel
Nobuo Aoyagi
Charles Frend
Cheerful Detective
Motoo Nishimura
City Boys, City Girls
Ren Yoshimura
College Tiger
Tsuruo Iwama
Come Back Soon
Tatsuo Saitō
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Comic Duo's Long Houses in a Panic
Kensei Yamazaki
Comical Detective Story: Hatchan's First Adventure
Nobuo Aoyagi
Coming Up of Kodokan
Kazuo Mori
Condor
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Cordon at Midnight
Seishirō Matsumoto
Crown Prince of Japan
Motoo Ogasawara
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Daigaku no kotengu
Shigeo Tanaka
Date sōdō: Haha goten
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Daughter of a Brightly-Dressed Street Musican
Rokuya Uchimura
Dawn Chorus
Hiroshi Edagawa
Dekoboko taikōki
Bin Katō
Densuke's 'Making Ends Meet'
Noriyuki Itaya
Densuke's Wonton Father and Dumpling Daughter
Noriyuki Itaya
Designated Criminal
Seiji Hisamatsu
Diary of a Young Couple in Trouble
Shigeru Tajiri
Die junge Stadt
Albert Quendler
Dokuja-tō kidan: Joōbachi
Shigeo Tanaka
Don't Look! It's the Moon!
Juno Nakagawa
Don't Make a Mistake!
Shigeaki Hidaka
Dorei no machi
Eiichi Koishi
Doro ni mamirete
Seiji Hisamatsu
Dream Girl
George Schaefer
Driving Like Mad
Shigeo Tanaka
Duel
Tsuneo Tabata
Duel at Omagatsuji
Kazuo Mori
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Family Affairs — Book of the Saizansus
Motoyoshi Oda
Family Affairs: Book of Necho Rinkon
Motoyoshi Oda
Family Affairs: The Book of Good Evenings
Motoyoshi Oda
Family Affairs: They're Stupid, Aren't They?
Motoyoshi Oda
Family Safety
Hisanobu Marubayashi
Fancy Talker
Seiichiro Uchikawa
Faraway Man
Senkichi Taniguchi
Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: The Night Before His Daughter's Wedding Day
Nobuo Aoyagi
Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: There are Five Men and Seven Women in the Family
Nobuo Aoyagi
Father's Secret Money
Yuri Yamazaki
Fear and Desire
Stanley Kubrick
Fighting Is Fun, Too
Nobuo Aoyagi
Finnskog og trollskap
Gunnar Wold
Fire Department
Shigeo Tanaka
First Love Waltz
Kenta Kimoto
For the Motherland
Aydın Arakon
Forever My Love
Paul Sloane
Four Mothers
Kōzō Saeki
Frank Launder
Freedom School
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Funny Fellows
Yasuki Chiba
Furisode kyōjo
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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H-8
Nikola Tanhofer
Haha chidori
Kōzō Saeki
Haha chigusa
Shigeyoshi Suzuki
Haha nami
Eiichi Koishi
Haha ningyō
Kōzō Saeki
Haha no hitomi
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Haha no mizūmi
Eiichi Koishi
Haha tokidori
Hiroshi Edagawa
Haha tsubaki
Eiichi Koishi
Haha zukiyo
Kōzō Saeki
Hahabue kobue
Kazuhiko Saimura
Hamlet
Alf Sjöberg
Hana aru dotō
Kazuo Mori
Hana fuku kaze
Yūzō Kawashima
Hana no kenkajō
Katsuhiko Tasaka
Hana no nagadosu
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Hana no nijū hachinin shū
Torajirō Saitō
Hana no sando gasa
Katsuhiko Tasaka
Hana to hatō
Shūe Matsubayashi
Hanayome hanamuko chanbara bushi
Kōzō Saeki
Hanazakari otoko ichidai
Kazuo Mori
Happy Farm Life
Chuo Shi-chieh
Haru no uzumaki
Hiroshi Edagawa
Hatachi zengo
Ren Yoshimura
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I Am Being Targeted
Kazuo Mori
I Am Three People
Shunkai Mizuho
I Love You
Kengo Furusawa
I Was Tokichiro
Kazuo Mori
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Ikinokotta benten-sama
Seiji Hisamatsu
Ikiru
Akira Kurosawa
Image of Mother
Hisatora Kumagai
Imitation of Life
Douglas Sirk
In a Lonely Place
Nicholas Ray
Inhibited Love
Keigo Kimura
Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts
Kōzō Saeki
Itarō jishi
Katsuhiko Tasaka
Itsuki no komori uta
Hiroshi Edagawa
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Jack Clayton
Jakō yashiki
Katsuhiko Tasaka
Jazz on Parade (1956): The Tomboy from the Backstreets
Umetsugu Inoue
Jigoku dani no hanayome
Ryohei Arai
Jigoku taiko
Ryohei Arai
Jirocho's Surprise: Haikagura, Kiso's Fire Festival
Nobuo Aoyagi
Jōen no hatoba
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
John Schlesinger
Johnny Guitar
Nicholas Ray
Journey to Italy
Roberto Rossellini
Junketsu kakumei
Yūzō Kawashima
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Kaette kita yūrei
Torajirō Saitō
Kago de iku no wa
Shin Amano
Kai nusumadara kumo
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Kaiketsu Shura-o
Santaro Marune
Kaikyo no same
Nobuo Adachi
Kanojo no tokudane
Shigeo Nakaki
Kare to kanojo to mei tantei
Isamu Kosugi
Kazanmyaku
Nobuo Adachi
Ken Russell
Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha
Eiichi Koishi
Kenya Boy
Tsunenori Iwasawa
Kettō gofun mae
Nobuo Adachi
Khalik Ma' Allah
Helmy Rafla
Kidnapper
Hiroshi Mizuno
Kimi machifune
Motoo Nishimura
Kin Toyama-san's Detective Story: Man in the Shadows
Masahiro Makino
King Family Videos
Kingoro's Pure Diary: A Company President's First Love
Shigeru Tajiri
Kingoro's Pure Diary: Comic Yakuza Story
Shigeru Tajiri
Kinseimei shōbu monogatari: Kettō
Shigeo Nakaki
Kisoji no Komori-uta
Bin Katō
Kiss the Moon
Motoyoshi Oda
Koguma monogatari: Yasei no mezame
Chiaki Hara, Yasuyoshi Ogura
Koi no Oranda-zaka
Hideo Suzuki
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L'ascension du Mont Ararat
Jean de Riquier, Fernand Navarra
Laugh-Filled Detective Story
Nobuo Aoyagi
Leader of the Bomb Girls
Masanori Kakei
Lewis Gilbert
Life Guidebook: A Bride's Sexual Encyclopedia
Shigeo Nakaki
Life Is Sweet
Lindsay Anderson
Lone Wolf
Eiichi Koishi
Los olvidados
Luis Buñuel
Love at Forty
Shunkai Mizuho
Love is Different and Delicious
Shunkai Mizuho
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Mabuta no haha
Kōzō Saeki
Machi no kotengu
Ren Yoshimura
Madame de...
Max Ophüls
Madari
Babubhai Mistri
Management Apartment
Shigekichi Takemae
Management Apartment's Surprise Big Broadcast
Shigekichi Takemae
Mange jigoku
Nobuo Adachi
Mariko's Autobiography: Flowing Constellation
Shūe Matsubayashi
Mashiroki Fuji no mine
Kōzō Saeki
Masura no Hashitsu Sequel: It's Hard to Be a Company
Motoyoshi Oda
Masurao Dispatchers Men's Group: Especially If You're a Man
Motoyoshi Oda
Masurao Dispatchers Men's Group: Take Your Best Shot
Motoyoshi Oda
Mayabazar
Kadri Venkata Reddy
Mesopotamia
Shigeru Kuwano
Midori no hate ni te o furu tenshi
Bin Katō
Midori no nakama
Kazuo Mori
Mike Leigh
Minami no bara
Kazuo Mori
Miss Hanaogi and Santa
Hideo Suzuki
Mitsurin no mehyō
Keigo Kimura
Moana Roa
Russell Reid
Moon Over the Abandoned Castle
Katsuhito Inomata
Mother India
Mehboob Khan
Muntinlupa: Song of Nostalgia
Takeo Murata
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Nagasaki no yoru
Kazuo Mori
Naki warai jigoku gokuraku
Nobuhiko Hamano
Nanatsu no seiza
Shigeo Tanaka
New Enoshima Elegy
Eiichi Koishi
New Tale of Genji: Shizuka and Yoshitsune
Kōji Shima
New Tengu Kurama Part II: Duel at Toji Temple
Nobuo Aoyagi
NHK
Ni Liv
Arne Skouen
Nice Day, Cloudy Day Part II
Toshio Shimura
Norihei's 'Third Level Husband': The Happy Family
Hisanobu Marubayashi
Norihei's College Affair: The Happy Family
Hisanobu Marubayashi
North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock
NZAC Himalayan Expedition Barun Valley 1954
George Lowe, Roland Ellis
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O Drakos
Ohatsu's Unrequited Love
Motoyoshi Oda
Okore Sanpei
Seiji Hisamatsu
Omokage no uta
Toshimasa Hozumi
Oni azami
Taizō Fuyushima
Onna Jirōchō wakuwaku dōchū
Bin Katō
Onna to iu shiro: Mari no maki
Yutaka Abe
Onna to iu shiro: Yuko no maki
Yutaka Abe
Ordet
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Orizuru kasa
Taizō Fuyushima
Otomi-san
Shin Amano
Otora-san
Motoyoshi Oda
Otora-san at His Best
Motoyoshi Oda
Otora-san's Business is Booming
Motoyoshi Oda
Otora-san's Ghostly Rascals
Motoyoshi Oda
Otora-san's Legal Holiday
Motoyoshi Oda
Outlaw
Kōzō Saeki
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Panic Button
Franklin J. Schaffner
Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray
Pay the Piper
William F. Claxton
Peengan
Amin Malik
Performance
Pickpocket
Robert Bresson
Pirate Island
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Practical Rat Control: Rat Killing
Pyaasa
Guru Dutt
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Radioactivity Plays the Game: Crafty Gentleman Sequel
Shigeru Tajiri
Rain on Jogashima
Shigeo Tanaka
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa
Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
Record of a Crafty Gentleman
Shigeru Tajiri
Record of Loving Your Wife
Seiji Hisamatsu
Red Camellia
Ren Yoshimura
Red Fan
Kenkichi Hara
Rio Bravo
Howard Hawks
Romance of a Ferry Man
Katsuhito Inomata
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Sado Island Elegy
Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Sakawma
Maung Chit
San akunin to akanbō
Eiichi Koishi
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
Hideo Suzuki
Sansho the Bailiff
Kenji Mizoguchi
Sarfarosh
Anwar Kamal Pasha
Sarutobi Sasuke: Senjō ke goku no hi matsuri
Nobuo Adachi
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Sazae-san: Nodojiman uta-gassen
Ryohei Arai
School Girls
Kōzō Saeki
School Girls in Costume
Nobuo Aoyagi
Scops-Owl Sermon
Seiji Hisamatsu
Seagull of the Night
Shin Saburi
Seki no yatappe
Katsuhiko Tasaka
Senryō hada
Taizō Fuyushima
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa
Shichinin no ani imōto
Kōzō Saeki
Shigetaro Iwami: Final Battle at Amano Hashidate
Kunio Watanabe
Shimai hoshi
Akira Nobuchi
Shinju fujin: Hitozuma no maki
Kajirō Yamamoto
Shinju fujin: Shojo no maki
Kajirō Yamamoto
Shinkon noroke bushi
Shigeo Tanaka
Shinshu Tenmakyo
Katsuhiko Tasaka
Shinzōyaburi no oka
Keigo Kimura
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Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
Hideo Sekigawa
Warau chikyū ni asa ga kuru
Hiroshi Mizuno
We Never Let You Go
Koga Masato
What's Opera, Doc?
Chuck Jones
While the Demon Steps Out
Shunkai Mizuho
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
Wings on the Himalayas
Vic Bray
Woman of Fire
Kōji Shima
Women in Love
Work Hard, Happy Girls!
Kengo Furusawa
Wrong Connection
Chiang Wai-Kwong
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Yajū tairiku
Yearning
Kōzō Saeki
Yobiko hoshi
Ren Yoshimura
Yoidore nitōryū
Kazuo Mori
Yome to yobarete mada mitsuki
Shin Amano
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
Kōzaburō Yoshimura
Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
Seiji Hisamatsu
Youth on Top of the Hill
Shigekichi Takemae
Yu no machi jōwa
Masamitsu Igayama
Yume o meshimase
Yūzō Kawashima
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Zac Zac Girl
Hideo Ōba
Zenigata Heiji
Kazuo Mori
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Dokuro kago
Katsuhiko Tasaka
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Jigoku no mon
Kazuo Mori
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Karakuri yashiki
Kazuo Mori
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Kiniro no ōkami
Kazuo Mori
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Koibumi dōchū
Taizō Fuyushima
Zhu Ba Jie zhao qin
Ng Wui
Zoku bakurō ichidai
Kōji Shima
Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Zoku suna-e jubaku: Yukijorō
Kimiyoshi Yasuda