Cast: Takashi Shimura

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Shoji Kiyokawa · Ichiro Sugai · Takako Irie

Plot The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Yuriko Hoshi · Hiroshi Koizumi · Akiko Wakabayashi

Plot After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

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 Ishirô Honda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Yumi Shirakawa · Takashi Shimura · Akira Kubo

Plot In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kenji Sahara · Yumi Shirakawa · Momoko Kôchi · Akihiko Hirata

Plot Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be invaders, responsible...

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 Motoyoshi Oda

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Setsuko Wakayama · Minoru Chiaki · Takashi Shimura

Plot In this second entry of the Godzilla series, another monster is introduced to fight Godzilla. The new creature is called Anguirus and looks like a big spiked turtle. The two...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Mie Hama · Susumu Fujita

Plot Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Setsuko Hara · Yosuke Natsuki · Chiemi Eri

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Shintarô Katsu · Koji Tsuruta · Raizô Ichikawa

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Takashi Shimura · Kanjuro Arashi · Kensaku Hara · Reiko Hoshi

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hitomi Nakahara · Yumiko Hasegawa · Katsuo Nakamura

Plot The story of adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang.

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Takashi Shimura

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Michiyo Aratama · Takashi Shimura · Haruko Sugimura

Plot A yakuza man helps attacking a man out of obligation but also promise to take care of his family a he finds out the boss killed the man to get...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Yôko Tsukasa · Misa Uehara

Plot Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Sumiko Fuji · Takashi Shimura · Kenjiro Ishiyama

Plot Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know Sakamoto, the leader of a yakuza group, and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza...

Direction Nobuo Aoyagi

Cast Chiemi Eri · Izumi Yukimura · Hiroshi Koizumi · Yumi Shirakawa

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Tsunehiko Watase · Mayumi Nagisa · Tatsuo Umemiya

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Keiko Awaji · Chikage Ogi · Takashi Shimura

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Miyoko Akaza · Kojiro Hongo · Hajime Koshikawa · Kô Nishimura