Screenplay: Shotaro Ishinomori

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Shotaro Ishinomori. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Miracle Giants Domu-kun (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Watanabe

Synopsis A boy passion for the game of baseball follows the path of his father who was a masterful player. As the show evolve we see how family,friends, team mates and sometimes foes show their love for the game and our...

6.3

239 votes

6.3

239 votes

The Skull Man (TV Series)

2007 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Takeshi Mori · Hirokazu Yamada · Katsumi Teratou · Keisuke Onishi

Synopsis Set in an alternate history of Japan, freelance photographer Minagami Hayato returns to his hometown of Ootomo to investigate rumors of a man wearing a skull mask committing murders there. Once in the city, he discovers connections between the victims...

5.7

92 votes

5.7

92 votes

Shin Kamen Rider

2023 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

Direction Hideaki Anno

Cast Sôsuke Ikematsu · Minami Hamabe · Tasuku Emoto · Shinya Tsukamoto

Synopsis A reboot of Kamen Rider (1971) to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

5.6

195 votes

5.6

195 votes

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Flying Phantom Ship

1969 · Movie · 60 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Ikeda

Synopsis Hayato's peaceful life with his parents and his dog is brought to a dramatic, terrible end when a giant robot, said to be sent from a flying ghost ship, devastates the city, killing hundreds including Hayato's parents. Shortly before his...

5.3

49 votes

5.3

49 votes

Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy

1980 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan

Direction Masayuki Akehi

5.3

29 votes

5.3

29 votes

30,000 Miles Under the Sea

1970 · Movie · 60 min. · Japan

Direction Kimio Yabuki

Synopsis The ruler of the underground world, is planning to conquer the whole world. Riding the fire dragon Isamu and Angel, the princess of the undersea kingdom, try to stop him from destorying their world.

5.1

36 votes

5.1

36 votes

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Armageddon: The Great Battle with Genma

1983 · Movie · 135 min. · Japan

Direction Rintaro

Synopsis A Transylvanian princess, a Japanese high school student and a 2000 year old warrior are selected to be part of a small force of powerful psionic warriors assembled to be the defenders of Earth against a nihilistic alien entity bent...

5.1

88 votes

5.1

88 votes

009 Re:Cyborg

2012 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Kenji Kamiyama

Synopsis When one of the most interesting japanese directors (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) is making an anime adaptation of a popular 60′s manga. With an organisation kidnapping humans to turn them into powerful cyborgs. But they start to...

5.1

77 votes

5.1

77 votes

Message from Space

1978 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Sonny Chiba · Vic Morrow · Philip Casnoff · Etsuko Shihomi

Synopsis In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother (played a comic actor in drag) rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight...

4.7

112 votes

4.7

112 votes

Cyborg 009: Call of Justice (TV Series)

2016 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Kôdai Kakimoto · Kenji Kamiyama

Synopsis The cyborgs regroup. Donning their combat armor, they fight seriously once again to defeat the power of the storm and its cause, the Cowboy.

4.7

38 votes

4.7

38 votes

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Cyborg 009

2011 · Movie · 5 min. · Japan

Direction Mamoru Oshii

Synopsis he electronics maker Panasonic is sponsoring a stereoscopic 3D animation project of Shotaro Ishinomori's classic science-fiction manga Cyborg 009 with director Mamoru Oshii and the studio Production I.G. The Cyborg 009 official fan club on the Yahoo! website began presenting...

3.9

67 votes

3.9

67 votes

Direction Oliver Driver · Simon Bennett · Riccardo Pellizzeri · Akihiro Noguchi

Cast Rorrie D. Travis · Jasmeet Baduwalia · Jacqueline Scislowski · Abraham Rodriguez

Synopsis Set in the future, a secret agency combines a newly discovered substance called "Morph-X" with animal DNA to create the Power Rangers Beast Morphers team. The Rangers must fight off an evil sentient computer virus bent on taking over the...

3.5

21 votes

3.5

21 votes

Cyborg 009

1966 · Movie · 64 min. · Japan

Direction Yugo Serikawa

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009-1: The End of the Beginning

2013 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Koichi Sakamoto

Cast Mayuko Iwasa · Minehiro Kinomoto · Nao Nakazawa · Aya Sugimoto

Synopsis Marking the 75th anniversary of his birth, Shotaro Ishinomori's classic spy heroine manga "009-1" has been adapted into a live-action motion picture for the first time ever.

Not rated

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Ecchan the Ninja (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Hiromi Yamamoto · Hiroshi Ikeda · Katsutoshi Sasaki · Masayuki Akehi

Synopsis TV Series (1971 - 1972). 26 Episodes. A strange girl transfers to Mitsuba Elementary School. At first glance, she is a normal student. However, she is a great athlete, and can talk to animals. Accoding to her, she is the...

Not rated

Not rated

Direction Takayuki Shibasaki

Cast Ryoma Takeuchi · Rio Uchida · Yû Inaba · Rei Yoshii

Synopsis Rain falls on February 10th, 1973, the date that the defeat of ShockerIcon-crosswiki by the hands of Kamen Riders 1Icon-crosswiki and 2Icon-crosswiki was aired on television, as depicted by a television in a junkyard, which is struck by green lightning....

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Not rated

Direction Minoru Yamada

Cast Masahiro Kamiya · Tadao Nakamaru · Akihiko Hirata · Akira Yamaguchi

Synopsis Brain is the world's greatest computer, and also the most intelligent being on planet Earth. One day, Brain decides to abandon its terrestrial moorings, and it's up to The Defenders to track it down. Unfortunately, Brain has developed an amazing...

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Not rated

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