Minoru Takada

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

Después de la detonación de las bombas atómicas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, el ejército japonés y el gobierno se enfrentan por la demanda de los aliados de la rendición incondicional. El Ministro de Defensa Anami defiende el continuar luchando, hasta la muerte del último japonés si hace falta. El Emperador Hirohito se reune con sus ministros para solicitar la impensable rendición pacífica del Japón. Cuando el ejército planea un golpe para derrocar al gobierno civil del Emperador, Anani debe decidir entre sus deseos o su lealtad al Emperador.

College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his sights set on winning football gold, but his father, who wants him to take over his sukiyaki restaurant, isn't too keen on this. Set in Kyoto, Hong Kong, and Macau, we follow Yuuichi as he falls in love and chases after his dreams.

Un soldado de fortuna viaja a lugares exóticos donde encuentra encanto y romance en la corte de un rey malvado.

A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.

Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!

An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.

El superhéroe Starman (o Super Giant) es enviado por el planeta Esmeralda para proteger la Tierra de unos alienígenas provenientes de la galaxia Zafiro. Los zafirianos secuestran al doctor Yamanaka y lo fuerzan a usar su nave espacial contra la Tierra. La película junta las partes 5 y 6 de la serie "Super Giant" (1957-1959).

Tres monstruos (Mothra, Godzilla y Rodan) se alían para salvar al Japón (y al mundo entero, occidental y no occidental) de la destrucción a la que se ve amenazado por el terrible monstruo de tres cabezas Ghidorah.

Varios sucesos extraños están ocurriendo en todo el mundo, incluyendo la desaparición de dos ingenieros. El exalmirante Kosumi casi es secuestrado junto con su secretaria y ahijada, Makoto. El fotógrafo Susumu Hatanaka y su asistente han logrado frustrar el intento de secuestro. Más tarde se revela quiénes son los responsables de los misteriosos acontecimientos: es el Imperio Mu, teóricamente desaparecido hace 12.000 años, y están planeando invadir el mundo de la superficie para reclamar sus supuestas colonias. Es que la civilización del continente perdido ha sobrevivido a su catastrófico hundimiento, viviendo por miles de años bajo el océano Pacífico en cuevas inmensas.

This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

En 1965, la estación espacial JSS-3 es destruida por una flota de ovnis, que luego comienzan un asedio global en la Tierra, utilizando rayos para manipular la gravedad y controlar las mentes de los hombres. En respuesta, se lleva a cabo una reunión del consejo global para determinar el origen de los ataques y preparar una armada de cohetes para un contraataque, una verdadera batalla en el espacio exterior. . . La película es una especie de secuela de THE MYSTERIANS de Toho en la repetición del personaje de Etsuko Shiraishi de esa película como su heroína. Fue editado a 74 minutos para su lanzamiento en Estados Unidos.

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an armistice. When they get there, peace has been declared, but the sub's crew don't know as their radio has failed. They send their passengers ashore and go out to face a final battle...

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.

A sensual love-story between two lesbian nuns.

Japanese film.

Japanese film.

Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.

The 2nd Super Giant film. Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. (Part 2 of 2)

Meiji Tenno portrayed the ramp up to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also showed the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan who sent their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and it's combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.

Japanese drama film.

20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese film about motorcycle racing.

A musical starring 3 Japanese pop music and TV stars.

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

Japanese film.

Takes place in one place, a beer hall, over the course of one evening. Uchida employs this concentration of setting and time to fashion a microcosm for a group portrait of Japan. One by one, the regulars of the bar appear: the pianist who dreams of becoming a composer but has disappeared from the music world after a knifing; a stripper who had planned to be a ballet dancer; an elderly painter trying to make a living at pachinko, and who rues his art having been used for militarist propaganda during the war; a young waitress considering elopement; a colonel turned real estate broker who attempts to rouse the crowd in military song until he realizes the tune has been transformed by marchers in the street into a leftist chant. The "twilight" is more than just a time of day; here, it is a state of being, a suspension between past and present, between the camaraderie of the saloon and the harsh world outside.

Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard from him. The only thing that reminded her of his warmth was the green music box that he’d left behind for her. She longed to reunite with her father. The little box played music that lifted her spirits, to a place where everything was perfect.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

Japanese war film.

Japanese musical.

Un hombre triste y preocupado, Reikichi Mayumi (Masayuki Mori), encuentra un nuevo trabajo cinco años después del final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Él escribirá cartas de amor de otras personas. Sus ideas sobre el amor y sus principios personales serán probados cuando se reencuentra con su ex novia, Michiko (Yoshigo Kuga), una mujer con un pasado oscuro marcado por la guerra.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato".

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

One Sunday morning, Toshio Esaki, a young dentist, wakes up in his clinic. It seems that he was drunk and spent the night in the clinic instead of going home. When he goes into the laboratory to get a drink of water, he finds a woman wearing a green striped Western-style dress lying there.

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.

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

After facing hard times, an orphan Korean boy gets adopted to Japanese society. He meets several Japanese people who are kind to him, and grows up wanting to repay his debt to Japan, by becoming a kamikaze pilot.

El Coronel Kato es un verdadero oficial que sirve a la Fuerza Aérea de Ejército Japonés Imperial en el Sudeste Asiático. Un oficial muy respetado por sus pilotos por su imparcialidad y su su excelente capacidad de vuelo. Su heroísmo y atractivos atributos físicos hacen de él un instrumento ideal para la maquinaria propagandística japonesa que encargó esta película a dos años de haber sido asesinado el Coronel Kato. No es un biopic de la vida y muerte de Kato. La película es más sobre el honor, el deber y la abnegación – esencialmente del liderazgo.

Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the pressure of the war had led the government to shorten the training and expand the age range of the recruits. Yokaren was highly selective, and thus an object of great fascination and desire for boys and young men. In this Navy–sponsored film, Setsuko Hara plays the daughter of a family that often entertains recruits on their days off—a surrogate sister to many trainees. Her fragile younger brother aspires to join the program, but is rejected. With perseverance and much support from Hara and their mother, he surmounts his weaknesses and becomes a flier.

Stalwart soldiers of the Japanese Empire – Japanese and Korean alike – stand in defense of a military outpost threatened by "bandits."

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942.

OSHINO, the beautiful daughter of restaurant owners, is in love with SHIRASAGI the painter. But there is another young man, the son of a moneylender family, who is desperately in love with Oshino...

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Two young girls, Nobiko and Tomiko, go to the same school. The less fortunate girl Nobiko is one of the top students, while the rich girl Tomiko is not. At one time Tomiko's father was quite fond of Nobuko's mother.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

A priest in Hokkaido adopts a blind orphan girl, and as she grows up he finds himself falling in love with her.

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adversity by Michiko -- and gets considerable moral support from not only her own mother but also from Shintaro's mother and siblings. Even more surprisingly, Yurie strikes up a friendship of sorts with her. When Yurie learns that the child is Shintaro's, she convinces Toyomi that it would be best to let Shintaro (and her) raise Kiyoko, so Toyomi can get on with making a proper life for herself. Tearfully, Toyomi agrees. Sometime later, Michiko goes to visit Toyomi -- and sees her at work, as a kindergarten teacher.

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of Mizoguchi’s "Water Magician), a rich young woman in love with Shintaro (Minoru TAKADA), a rich young man. Unfortunately, Shintaro’s father is in the process of arranging a marriage for him with Yurie (Chieko TAKEHISA), the scion of an even wealthier family. In order to avoid this, the two young lovers flee to Tokyo to live together. When Shintaro comes back to proclaim his intent to marry Toyomi, his father browbeats him into attending the long-arranged marriage meeting with Yurie. While Shintaro is back home, Toyomi goes on a vacation trip with her closest chum, Michiko (Yumeko AIZOME). At a class reunion, Toyomi is to distressed (at not having heard from Shintaro for so long), she doesn’t go out on the town with her classmates. Michiko, however, runs into Shintaro and Yurie (also out on the town), and pulling him aside, demands an explanation.

Kayo and Kuniko graduated from girls' school together and are as close as sisters. Kuniko's fiancé, Minakami, feels something that attracts him deeply towards Kayo. On the other hand, Kayo prays for the happiness of her best friend and marries a very ordinary man. However, at one point, this mediocre but increasingly ferocious husband died in an accident ... A triangular love story develops depicting a woman's heart that sways between love and morals. Based on a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya, there were originally two parts to the film (If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again), both supposed to be 85 minutes, but apparently what we have now is this 103-minute amalgam of the two.

Father, son Kentaro and daughter Ochiyo, who live on the banks of the Sumida River, regain their love for each other after family discord and separation. The film is considered lost.

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is now a union leader in opposition of her husband.

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of the local squire, who introduces the lad to her pilot brother and his flying officer friends; through hard work, and despite the handicap of a lowly class status, he eventually succeeds in qualifying as a pilot and joining the air force.

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he really is, she leaves him "until he becomes an honest person." Kenji soon finds it's not easy to get rid of one's past.

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with his wife, the young woman and her husband. Considered to be a lost film.

Tetsuo Nomoto, un joven licenciado, intenta en vano encontrar un trabajo digno de sus méritos. Poco después se casa con su novia, Machiko, a quien oculta que no tiene empleo. Las penurias económicas no tardan en hacer mella, lo que fuerza a Machiko a buscar trabajo en un bar. "Me gradué, pero..." duraba originalmente 77 minutos, de los cuales (a fecha de 2013) se conservan exclusivamente entre 11-15. Éstos fueron incluidos en el DVD "The Student Comedies (The Ozu Collection)". (FILMAFFINITY)

Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.