Cast: Akira Takarada

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Keiko Awaji

Plot Nobuko is a woman who suffered her husband's death and had to raise her son by herself. She also has to face disappointment when her son decides to marry a...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Daisuke Kato · Keiju Kobayashi

Plot Biopic about the Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi who developed her career from scratch.

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ganjiro Nakamura · Setsuko Hara · Yôko Tsukasa · Michiyo Aratama

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Setsuko Hara · Hideko Takamine · Akira Takarada · Hiroshi Koizumi

Plot It concerns an aging mother who lives in Tokyo, her five grown children, and several of their spouses, nearly all of whom have money troubles. When one of the daughters...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Hideko Takamine · Yôko Tsukasa · Akemi Kita · Reiko Dan

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akira Takarada · Koshiro Matsumoto

Plot A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to bribe a Chancelor who...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Ken Yamauchi · Yoshiko Kôda · Masayuki Mori · Akira Takarada

Plot Hashimoto Shinobu wrote the script based on Ishimori Nobuo’s original story, which won prizes including the first Mimei Literature Award. Depicts an Ainu girl and her younger brother living in...

Direction Mikio Naruse · Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Yôko Tsukasa · Isuzu Yamada · Akira Takarada · Tatsuya Mihashi

Direction Shinobu Yaguchi

Cast Ayaka Miyoshi · Akira Takarada · Takahiro Miura · Yu Yashiro

Plot Suzuki Shizuka (Miyoshi Ayaka), has a deep, dark hatred of musicals stemming from a childhood trauma. One day, she goes to a rundown amusement park with her niece, where they...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Takarada · Momoko Kôchi · Akihiko Hirata · Takashi Shimura

Plot Note: The original movie is "Gojira", directed only by Inoshiro Honda and released in Japan in 1954. The american version is the same movie with additionat feature (new scenes) directed...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Akihiko Hirata · Kyôko Kagawa

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

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Tsukasa · Akira Takarada · Keiko Awaji

Plot 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 lady. But she sees him only as...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Toru Emori · Kayoko Kishimoto · Keiko Matsuzaka

Plot 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 his latest project.

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Takarada · Yuriko Hoshi · Hiroshi Koizumi · Yu Fujiki

Plot A greedy developer unwittingly hatches a gigantic baby moth upon Tokyo, while Godzilla strikes once again.

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Nick Adams · Akira Takarada · Jun Tazaki · Akira Kubo

Plot Aliens from Planet X request the use of Godzilla and Rodan to fight off King Ghidorah, but have a better use for the three monsters.

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi · Hugo Grimaldi

Cast Makoto Satô · Misa Uehara · Keiju Kobayashi · Toshirô Mifune

Plot 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 1941 and is welcomed...

Direction Ryûhei Kitamura

Cast Masahiro Matsuoka · Rei Kikukawa · Kazuki Kitamura · Don Frye

Plot Evil Space Aliens called the Xilians unleashes all the Earth's monsters to lay waste to most of the world's major cities, including Tokyo, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Paris. It...

Direction Takao Okawara

Cast Tetsuya Bessho · Takehiro Murata · Akiji Kobayashi · Makoto Ôtake

Plot In the midst of another rampage by Godzilla, Mothra emerges to save the human race from Battra.

Direction Ishirô Honda · Terry O. Morse

Cast Raymond Burr · Takashi Shimura · Akira Takarada · Momoko Kôchi

Plot The first of the Godzilla movies, and the most somber and serious in tone, Godzilla, King of the Monsters was originally a 98-minute Japanese horror film, until a U.S. company...

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Akira Takarada · Kumi Mizuno · Chotaro Togin · Hideo Sunazuka

Plot A young man steals a boat to find his brother, but he and his shipmates become shipwrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by a giant sea monster and a slumbering...