The White Orchid (1951)

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.

The altered American release of Godzilla Raids Again. Originally meant to be known as the The Volcano Monsters, the film was eventually released as "Gigantis."

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

Three and a half years after Japan was bombed, the tax authorities organized the T-Men. Nango is in love with a girl called Mibu, and the two are against the T-Men organization. Mibu whats to kill all of the T-Men one-by-one.

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

A 1964 war film directed by Kengo Furusawa

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.