Martial arts films of the 1950s

57 films: 27 boxing films, 17 jidaigeki (period dramas), 9 samurai films, 3 martial arts films.

1950

• Rashomon (1950) – Akira Kurosawa
• Right Cross (1950) – John Sturges

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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