Martial arts films of the 1950s
57 films: 27 boxing films, 17 jidaigeki (period dramas), 9 samurai films, 3 martial arts films.
1950
1951
- Fighting Blood (1951) – Clive Ross
- Five Men of Edo (1951) – Daisuke Itō
- Iron Man (1951) – Joseph Pevney
- Roaring City (1951) – William Berke
1952
- Flesh and Fury (1952) – Joseph Pevney
- Glory Alley (1952) – Raoul Walsh
- Kid Monk Baroni (1952) – Harold D. Schuster
- Pepe the Bull (1952) – Ismael Rodríguez
- The Quiet Man (1952) – John Ford
- The Ring (1952) – Kurt Neumann
1953
- 99 River Street (1953) – Phil Karlson
- Canvas Back Duck (1953) – Jack Hannah
- Naam (1953) – A. Kasilingam
- Off Limits (1953) – George Marshall
- The Joe Louis Story (1953) – Robert Gordon
- The Square Ring (1953) – Basil Dearden
- Tiger from Tjampa (1953) – D. Djajakusuma
1954
- Air of Paris (1954) – Marcel Carné
- Awa Odori Tanuki Battle (1954) – Bin Katō
- Samurai Trilogy (1954) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- Sansho the Bailiff (1954) – Kenji Mizoguchi
- Seven Samurai (1954) – Akira Kurosawa
- The Boys from Leningrad (1954) – Semyon Timoshenko
1955
- Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955) – Tomu Uchida
- Christ in Bronze (1955) – Minoru Shibuya
- Fling in the Ring (1955) – Jules White
- It's Always Fair Weather (1955) – Gene Kelly
- Killer's Kiss (1955) – Stanley Kubrick
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- The Square Jungle (1955) – Jerry Hopper
1956
- Akō Rōshi: Ten no Maki, Chi no Maki (1956) – Sadatsugu Matsuda
- Gonpachi (1956) – Kenji Misumi
- Nazo no yurei-sen (1956) – Sadatsugu Matsuda
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) – Robert Wise
- The Harder They Fall (1956) – Mark Robson
- The Leather Saint (1956) – Alvin Ganzer
- Three Women Around Yoshinaka (1956) – Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Tsukigata Hanpeita: Hana no maki; Arashi no maki (1956) – Teinosuke Kinugasa
- World in My Corner (1956) – Jesse Hibbs
- Yagyū Ren'yasai: Hiden Tsukikage-shō (1956) – Katsuhiko Tasaka
1957
- Adauchi sōzenji baba (1957) – Masahiro Makino
- Dai-bosatsu tōge (1957) – Tomu Uchida
- Freelance Samurai (1957) – Kenji Misumi
- Monkey on My Back (1957) – André de Toth
- Throne of Blood (1957) – Akira Kurosawa
1958
- Rickshaw Man (1958) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- The 7th Secret Courier for Edo (1958) – Kazuo Mori
- The Bored Hatamoto Samurai (1958) – Sadatsugu Matsuda
- The Sword Stained with Royal Blood (1958) – Hoi-Ching Cheung
- Travels of Lord Mito (1958) – Kenji Misumi
1959
- Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka (1959) – Tomu Uchida
- Life of an Expert Swordsman (1959) – Hiroshi Inagaki
- Pendekar Bujang Lapok (1959) – P. Ramlee
- Samurai Vendetta (1959) – Kazuo Mori
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