Cast: Akiji Kobayashi

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Akira Ishihama · Shima Iwashita

Synopsis Harakiri (1962) follows Tsugumo Hanshirō, a destitute rōnin, who arrives at the estate of the Iyi clan requesting to commit ritual suicide (seppuku) in their courtyard. As the clan prepares for the ceremony, they recount a similar incident involving another...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Akiji Kobayashi · Minoru Oki

Synopsis In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Kotobuki Hananomoto · Akiji Kobayashi · Eiji Okada · Kin Sugai

Synopsis Jissoji's feature film debut about the incestuous relationship of two siblings from a traditional family near Kyoto is a rare example of a successful rendition of Buddhist thought in film and features captivating photography with breathtaking tracking shots.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Ichiro Kijima · Misako Watanabe · Akiji Kobayashi

Synopsis When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. Youth of the Beast (Yaju no Seishun) was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing the flamboyant colors, hallucinatory images, and striking compositions that would...

Direction Robert Houston

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Minoru Oki · Akiji Kobayashi

Synopsis Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Mariko Kaga · Yumiko Nogawa · Masako Yagi

Synopsis Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original title translates as "Indulgence"). Katsuo Nakamura stars as a man blackmailed by a thief, who makes him hold on to...

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Akiji Kobayashi · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Miki Mizuno · Tamotsu Ishibashi

Synopsis The giant flying turtle is back for this 1995 Japanese feature where once again Gamera's intentions are misinterpreted by the military. All Gamera wants to do is take on his old enemy, Gyaos, the giant prehistoric bird who has nested...

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Kōsuke Toyohara · Anna Nakagawa · Megumi Odaka · Katsuhiko Sasaki

Synopsis Time travelers use Godzilla in their scheme to destroy Japan to prevent the country's future economic reign.

Direction Takao Okawara

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

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

Direction Eiji Tsuburaya · Akio Jissoji · Hajime Tsuburaya · Yuzo Higuchi

Cast Susumu Kurobe · Sandayû Dokumamushi · Masanari Nihei · Bin Furuya

Synopsis TV Series (1966-1967). 40 Episodes. The Ultra Series is the collective name for all the shows produced by Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad Ultra Monsters. The Ultra Series is one of the prominent tokusatsu superhero...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita · Daisuke Yamazaki

Cast Takenori Murano · Kenichi Sakuragi · Akiji Kobayashi · Kunie Tanaka

Direction Hajime Tsuburaya

Cast Akiji Kobayashi · Susumu Kurobe · Sandayû Dokumamushi · Susumu Fujita

Synopsis While investigating two glowing ball-like UFOs chasing each other, Science Patrol officer Hayata is killed when one of the UFOs accidentally crashes into the Mini-VTOL he rode. The being inside, a giant silver & red alien from the Land of...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yutaka Mizutani · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Rie Nakahara · Etsuko Ichihara

Synopsis The plot of "Lonely Heart" concerns a gunman who murders all the occupants of a bookstore. But this quickly becomes the story of the policemen who investigate the crime. One of them was engaged to one of the victims and...

Direction Sompote Sands · Shohei Tojo

Cast Kan Booncho · Akiji Kobayashi · Tanyarat Lohanan · Yodchai Meksuwan

Synopsis The Hindu god Hanuman teams up with Ultraman and his brethren against familiar Ultra-foes in this rare Ultraman movie co-produced in Thailand.

Direction Kazuho Mitsuta · Toshitsugu Suzuki · Samaji Nonagase · Hajime Tsuburaya

Cast Kôji Moritsugu · Yuriko Hishimi · Sandayû Dokumamushi · Shôji Nakayama

Synopsis An alien superhero from M-78 protects Earth from extraterrestrial threats in this popular classic follow-up to the original "Ultraman" TV series.

Direction Masanori Kakei · Eizo Yamagiwa · Tadashi Mafune · Takumi Furukawa

Cast Keiji Takamine · Mitsuko Hoshi · Tetsurô Sagawa · Shunichi Okita

Synopsis TV series (1972-1973). 52 episodes.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Koji Ishizaka · Keiko Kishi · Shirô Itô

Synopsis The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Hironobu Nomura · Narumi Yasuda · Takaaki Enoki · Ryo Tamura

Synopsis During the late Heian era in Japan a famous duel took place between the warrior monk Musashibo Benkei and a slender young man of high rank named Shanao. This was the battle at Gojo Bridge, and while Benkei had taken...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Kei Sato · Yoshihiko Aoyama · Akiji Kobayashi · Jun Hamamura

Direction Shotaro Ishinomori · Minoru Yamada

Cast Toru Okazaki · Yôji Matsuda · Mariko Matsumura · Jun Hamamura