1952 Japanese-language films

is a 1952 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. The film examines the struggles of a terminally ill Tokyo bureaucrat (played by Takashi Shimura) and his final quest for meaning. The screenplay was partly inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1886 novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

1945 film by Akira Kurosawa

1952 film by Kenji Mizoguchi

1952 film by Kaneto Shindō

1952 film by Yasujirō Ozu

1937 film by Kaneto Shindō

1952 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa

1952 film by Kazuo Mori

is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.