List of Japanese films of 1959
# List of Japanese films of 1959

A list of films released in Japan in 1959 (see 1959 in film).

Japanese films released in 1959 :

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Battle in Outer Space | Ishirō Honda | Ryō Ikebe, Kyoko Anzai, Minoru Takada | Science fiction | |
| Beauty Is Guilty | Yasuzo Masumura | Ayako Wakao, Fujiko Yamamoto | Romance | |
| Beni azami | | | | |
| Enchanted Princess | | Ayako Wakao, Raizo Ichikawa | Fantasy | |
| The Birth of Japan | Hiroshi Inagaki | Yoko Tsukasa | | |
| Fires on the Plain | Kon Ichikawa | Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa, Mickey Curtis | War drama | |
| Floating Weeds | Yasujirō Ozu | Ganjirō Nakamura, Haruko Sugimura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi | Drama | |
| The Ghost of Yotsuya | Nobuo Nakagawa | Shigeru Amachi, Noriko Kitazawa, Kazuko Wakasugi | — | |
| Good Morning | Yasujirō Ozu | Koji Shidara, Masahiko Shimazu, Chishū Ryū | Comedy | |
| Hiroshima mon amour | Alain Resnais | Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson | Drama | French-Japanese co-production |
| The Human Condition | Masaki Kobayashi | Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, So Yamamura | — | |
| Kiku to Isamu | Tadashi Imai | Tanie Kitabayashi | | Won Best Film at the 14th Mainichi Film Awards and at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards |
| Magic Boy | Akira Daikubara, Taiji Yabushita | | Fantasy adventure | Animated film |
| Monkey Sun | Kajiro Yamamoto | Norihei Miki, Fukutaro Ichikawa | Fantasy | |
| My Second Brother | Shohei Imamura | Hiroyuki Nagato | | |
| Odd Obsession | Kon Ichikawa | Machiko Kyō, Ganjirō Nakamura, Junko Kano | — | |
| Samurai Vendetta | Kazuo Mori | Raizo Ichikawa, Shintaro Katsu | | |
| Seki no yatappe | Satoshi Kado | Kazuo Hasegawa, Shintaro Katsu | Chambara | |
| Unforgettable Trail | Koji Shima | Fujiko Yamamoto | Drama | |
