Akira Takarada

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Akira Takarada

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Takarada

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay...

Genre: Action

Cast: Masahiro Matsuoka

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life partner. Her family and friends try to dissuade her.

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Cast: Kazuko Yoshiyuki

An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Bessho

A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Joseph Cotten

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Nick Adams

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

Genre: War

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Takarada

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

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Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), plus WWII newsreel...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

An independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world's greatest monster, Godzilla. Filmed on location in Tokyo...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Akira Takarada

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alex Cox

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote...

Genre: Horror

Cast: John Carradine

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Akira Takarada

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lucilla Yu Ming

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Miyuki works as an OL. Her younger sibling died from a car accident in 1989. Due to her sibling's death, her mother became ill and her father drank...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Suzuki

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misa Uehara

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Country, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Akira Takarada

Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and left under the spell. Now she is compelled to sing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayaka Miyoshi

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

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Cast: Akira Takarada

There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orphans of Manchuria refugee camp who had to struggled...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenji Sahara

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Akira Takarada

A look into the production of the nineteenth Godzilla film. Includes filmmaker and actor interviews with behind the scenes footage of the film's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kazuki Ōmori

Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Daisuke Ryū

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

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Cast: Akira Takarada

Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

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Cast: Masanori Sera

Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Akira Takarada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Loh Ti

Two brothers must take the helm of their family's company, Armadillo, Inc., after their father steps down from his position as the company's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Taichi Kokubun

In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...

Genre: Music

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

Story of young love in the hills.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yū Fujiki

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renka Iwamoto

The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

Emiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira Kuniyoshi (Shinji Yamashita), the son of the president of a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Seiko Matsuda

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Murasaki Fujima

Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chiemi Eri

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Takarada

The twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.

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Cast: Kentarō Shimizu

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to...

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Cast: Kotaro Yoshida

Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Raymond Burr

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Reiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was engaged to Takada, pretended not to be interested in her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasuko Matsuyuki

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Daichi Tateharu who was an employee of the Mori Seisakusho has been recruited from Siberia, but the company changed its name to Toyo Denki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A year 's date has flowed since Toyoshi Daikichi was driven out of Toyo Electric. In the company Okazaki's plan steadily progressed, a capital...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mie Nakao

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Takarada

Godzilla Battle Royale is a low-budget Godzilla fan film, directed and written by Billy DuBose. It was theatrically screened in the Pickwick Theater.

Genre: Action

Cast: Billy Dubose

Because his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he moved to PCL (currently Toho) in 1933, where he...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mikio Naruse

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Cast: Kei Tani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renka Iwamoto