Cast: Sachio Sakai

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Isuzu Yamada · Takashi Shimura · Akira Kubo

Plot 'Macbeth' is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan. Taketoki Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) is a valiant warrior whose life is transformed by an encounter with a ghostly female spirit. The...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yôko Tsukasa · Isuzu Yamada

Plot In the 19th century, in a Feudal Japan, a samurai arrives to a rural village that is divided between two groups; neither side is particularly honorable. As he shows his...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiju Kobayashi · Yûzô Kayama

Plot In Japan circa Eighteenth Century, nine young men decide to present an accusation of corruption in their clan to the local superintendent. However, the group is betrayed, but the ronin...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Toshirô Mifune · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Chieko Nakakita

Plot A drunken doctor with a hot temper works in a village whose most prominent geographical feature is a disease-ridden sump. Businesses and social life are infected by the yakuza, or...

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 Toshio Masuda · Hajime Takaiwa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Sanae Tsuchida · Kei Sato · Isamu Nagato

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Yuriko Hamada · Chieko Higashiyama · Isao Kimura · Keiko Kishi

Plot Sudo and Mori are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...

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 · 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 Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yuriko Hoshi · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot Mohei is a wandering samurai, lost in grief and despair after his family is wiped out. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shogoro Ichikawa · Ryu Kuze · Yosuke Natsuki

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 Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Yôko Tsukasa · Seizaburô Kawazu

Plot Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned...

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 Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Kubo · Atsuko Takahashi · Yukiko Kobayashi · Kenji Sahara

Plot A space probe is infiltrated by alien beings and then crashes on a remote Pacific atoll. A group planning to build a resort hotel land on the island and discover...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Tadao Takashima · Kenji Sahara · Yu Fujiki · Ichirô Arishima

Plot A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla.

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Tomonori Yazaki · Eisei Amamoto · Sachio Sakai · Kazuo Suzuki

Plot A bullied schoolboy dreams of traveling to Monster Island, where he befriends Godzilla's son, who is also having bully troubles.

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Asami Kuji · Keiju Kobayashi · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Chikage Awashima · Reiko Dan

Direction Yasuki Chiba · Motoyoshi Oda

Cast Daisuke Kato · Keiko Tsushima · Seiji Miyaguchi · Nobuo Nakamura