Hiroshi Koizumi

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Le...

The Return of Godzilla

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected G...

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by...

Godzilla Raids Again

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new mons...

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to b...

Mothra

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that dis...

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to...

Warrior of Love Rainbowman

Thanks to a Buddhist hermit in India, a young Japanese wrestler transforms into a 7-phased superhero and fights...

Dogora

A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

Chûshingura

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to av...

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the governmen...

Prophecies of Nostradamus

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of th...

Matango

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little e...

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.

Mothra and her fairies return to Japan to warn mankind that they must return Kiryu to the sea, for the dead mus...

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance pol...

Atragon

The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countri...

The Storm of the Pacific

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on t...

Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects

A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japane...

Godzilla 1985

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "God...

Battle of the Japan Sea

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet an...

Rebels on the High Sea

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

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The White Rose of Hong Kong

Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where...

Late Chrysanthemums

What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved, and become a we...

The Daughters of the Saotome Family

1962 Japanese movie

The Beast Shall Die

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of hi...

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discove...

Mr. Pu

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Lovers of Ginza

1961 Japanese movie

Tokyo Sweetheart

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined...

The Capital of Love

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disap...

Last of the Wild Ones

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

Holiday in Tokyo

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels...

Gigantis, the Fire Monster

A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.

Different Sons

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money...

Mother's First Love

A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who...