Kumi Mizuno
Nacimiento : 1937-01-01, Niigata, Japan
Historia
Kumi Mizuno (水野久美 Mizuno Kumi), born Maya Igarashi (五十嵐麻耶 Igarashi Maya), is a Japanese actress. Despite the large number of films she appeared in early on in her career, Mizuno is best known for her roles in Toho's 1960's kaiju films Matango, Frankenstein vs. Baragon, Invasion of Astro-Monster, Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, and The War of the Gargantuas. Her most iconic role is undoubtedly that of the Xilien agent Namikawa in Invasion of Astro-Monster. She became such a cult figure among kaiju fans that Toho brought her back in 2002 to play a role in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and again in 2004 for Godzilla: Final Wars. Mizuno also appeared in Toho's 2009 stage adaptation of its 1960 science fiction film The Human Vapor.
Herself
An NHK documentary about the talented actresses who have portrayed the beautiful, intelligent and resourceful heroines of the long running series. Features interviews with Kumi Mizuno, Keiko Mari, Yumiko Shaku, and Megumi Odaka. Also featured are never before seen 8mm home movies shot by producer Tomoyuki Tanaka on the sets of classic Toho films.
Keiko Hoshikawa
Kei Omori did not have anything he wanted to do with his life. Without any specific reasons, he enrolled in a special nursing school. After his graduation, he begins work at a small-size multi-functional facility as a care worker. He has a hard time communicating with the elderly people with dementia. For the first time, he is placed in charge of 79-year-old Keiko Hoshikawa who has dementia. With the help of the staff and trial-and-error, he develops a relationship with Keiko.
One snowy night, in a mountain hut, Minokichi, a hunter, sees a snow woman killing his mentor Mosaku. “Should you tell anyone, I will take your life” she says, then drifts off. A year later, Minokichi meets and marries a beauty named Yuki. She bears him a daughter, Ume. 14 years pass and Ume blossoms into a radiant lady who befriends the sickly Mikio, the village leader’s son and Mosaku’s distant relative. Mikio soon dies in the same hut as Mosaku, with his body showing the same frostbite scars. Minokichi is reminded of that horrid night, and wonders what it was that he saw, and who Yuki really is.
A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern during breaks.
Broadcasted stage adaptation of The Human Vapor by Toho & NHK.
Commander Akiko Namikawa
Los Xillian, una raza alienígena, inicia la invasión de la Tierra, primero mediante engaños y después abiertamente, sirviéndose de un pequeño ejército de monstruos gigantes. Solo un grupo de resistencia formado por miembros de la EDF (Earth Defense Force) podrá hacerles frente. Pero para derrotar a los monstruos deberán despertar de su letargo en la Antártida a la peor amenaza que jamás haya conocido la humanidad, pero que ahora podría ser la última esperanza de salvación: el Rey de los Monstruos, Godzilla.
Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in a two-story house with a garage, the once unstoppable routine is about to close down forever. However, Tsutomu's last day changes him forever, as a car accident leads to his new purpose and sets him on a mission to clean every traffic mirror in Japan in order to save lives.
1999 Prime Minister Machiko Tsuge
Para proteger el país del monstruo Godzilla, el gobierno japonés crea un robot gigante pilotado por seres humanos: Mekagodzilla, un símil del propio monstruo. Para ello utilizan el esqueleto del Godzilla original, que atacó por primera vez en 1954.
Después de ser secuestrada por tres jóvenes, una anciana multimillonaria consigue dominar la situación con gran habilidad e inteligencia, manipulando a su antojo a sus captores y logrando dividirlos y enfrentarlos.
Toru's Mother
Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi moves in in the apartment upstairs. Rumi is a self-proclaimed master thief, but she needs socially awkward Toru's help to actually kickstart her so-called career.
Masayo
A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.
Narrator
A collection of deleted scenes and bloopers from the library of Toho Studios films, including several films from the famous Godzilla franchise.
1980 Japanese film distributed by Shochiku.
After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed forces and face the hardships of military service.
Soccer movie.
Natsuko Aikawa
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with a young sprightly girl.
Yuko Shiga
Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...
An action-comedy about three men who try to bilk money out of gambling dens.
Yoshie
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader.
Oshizu
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seigoro.
Lady X
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of Buddhabal. ISP Agents Carter and Kitami are assigned to the case. When the Prime Minister arrives in Tokyo for a friendship visit, Carter and Kitami are on hand to protect him. On hand, too, are assorted ZZZ blackguards. Several attempts on the Prime Minister's life fail, until finally the ZZZ introduces a new device designed to eliminate not only the Prime Minister but the ISP Agents as well: THE KILLING BOTTLE, then, is a pocket-sized container filled with a substance that can expand to thousands of times its size and throttle its victim, then disappear leaving only the corpse.
Daiyo
Una misteriosa isla ha sido colonizada por una extraña organización terrorista de tintes comunistas llamada Red Bamboo, que ha esclavizado a la población indígena y que se dedica a la fabricación de bombas atómicas. En esta isla vive la langosta gigante Ebirah, que se encarga de devorar a todos aquellos que intentan escapar del lugar, hasta que un rayo despierta a Godzilla, dormido casualmente en el interior de una gruta de la isla.
Akemi
Un pulpo gigante ataca un barco, cuando repentinamente aparece Gaira, un enorme simio de color verde, que destruye el pulpo y devora a los marineros. Es entonces cuando empieza una senda de terrror y destrucción. El único que puede deterner a Gaira es Sanda, su hermano gemelo de color marrón, el lado positivo de la original masa de la que surgen ambas bestias. La batalla está servida.
Miss Namikawa
Dos astronautas, uno norteamericano y otro japonés, viajan hasta el Planeta X, un nuevo astro que ha surgido más allá de Júpiter. Allí descubren una civilización extraterrestre, los X-iens, que vive en un complejo mundo subterráneo protegiéndose de las desastrosas condiciones de la superficie, dominada por una destructiva criatura monstruosa que han bautizado como Monster Zero.
Dr. Sueko Togami
Alemania, 1945. El corazón del monstruo de Frankenstein es conducido a Japón y, mientras es examinado, cae la bomba de Hiroshima. Quince años más tarde, un niño que ha brotado del corazón inmortal es atrapado, pero se comprueba que su crecimiento es imparable.
Rumi #6
In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent scientist. Edited into Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" along with the 4th film in the series, "Key of Keys".
The Witch
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle chaos and the persecution of the Shogun's army. Five samurai decide on different fates when it becomes clear that their side is being destroyed. One wants to attack the enemy head on in a final honorable death. Another decides to commit hari-kiri but wants to find a glorious view to do it. His close friend, the "coward", just wants to run and give up the life of a samurai. The final two set their own castle on fire to garner favors from the enemy and therefore avert their own death during the massacre of all defeated soldiers as
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima
Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materials for the water dam construction. Kitami, who called himself a salesman and met with Klima, acts as his bodyguard. However, Kitami learns that a large number of industrial cylinders unrelated to dam construction have been purchased, and Klima secretly confined her secretary, a former army colonel, and threatened to produce poisonous gas. Klima packed the gas in a cylinder and sent it to Alabanda in an attempt to cause a civil war between the government and the tribes. Around that time, Klima secretly investigated Kitami's identity and learned that he was a secret agent.
Miwa the Rebel Leader
Sukezaemon, un pirata, naufraga en un rincón extraño del mundo. Con su compañero, un mago llamado Sennin, Sukezaemon se enreda en una conspiración del malvado primer ministro para la sucesión a la muerte del rey Raksha.
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
Mami Sekiguchi - Singer
Siete turistas naufragan en una extraña isla tropical. No se detectan animales, no hay comida, casi no hay agua potable. Los siete supervivientes detectan pronto restos de otros muchos naufragios, pero ningún superviviente. Debido a sus condiciones empiezan a surgir disputas por casi todo, hasta que el hambre lleva a algunos de ellos a comer los hongos que parecen plagar parte de la isla y los restos de los naufragios...
The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.
Takihime
Kichi es un poderoso ninja que huye del clan Takeda, y más concretamente de otro ninja llamado Saburoza. En su viaje conoce a dos hombres misteriosos. El primero es un enemigo sin demasiadas ganas de jugarse la vida; Doko Harima. El otro es un alegre vagabundo convencido de que algún día será el señor de Japón, y su nombre es Tokichiro Kinoshita. Este último les convence para unirse a los Bashaku y transportar 300 rifles hasta su señor Nobunaga Oda
Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
Saho
Esta impresionante historia épica ha sido a veces etiquetada como la versión japonesa de "Lo Que El Viento Se Llevó". Chusha Ichikawa personifica a un señor feudal poderoso y despiadado que lucha contra el virtuoso y joven noble, Yuzo Kayama. Ichikawa encuentra una victoria parcial cuando engaña a Kayama y lo convence de hacerse el Hara Kiri. La venganza será realizada por los cuarenta y siete samuráis de Kayama. Basada en una leyenda japonesa venerable, la historia de Chushingura ha sido filmada en varias ocasiones, pero sólo la versión de 1941 (47 Ronin) estuvo a la altura de la versión de 1962, del gran director Hiroshi Inagaki.
Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort.
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
Soldier
Junko
Takiko Nomura
Gorath es un meteoro errante (6000 veces más grande que nuestro planeta) que viaja inexorablemente en curso de colisión contra la Tierra, absorbiendo todo lo que se le envía. Los cientificos tendrán que evitarlo, pero la cosa es difícil ya que la solución propuesta para escapar niega todas las posibilidades de la física al apartar nuestro planeta del camino de Gorath. Tras una cumbre de científicos internacional se propone el lanzamiento de unos proyectiles desde el Polo Sur. Pero el calor provoca el derretimiento de un casquete y la liberación de Maguma, una monstruosa morsa gigante.
Mitsuko Yoshimura
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
Natsumi
Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during the Pacific War. Matters are complicated further when he falls in love with the soldier's younger sister (Tsukasa).
Ruriko
In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Ginza aunt is really their mother.
An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)
Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.
Tomi
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.
Follow-up to Desperado Outpost (1959) sees Japanese soldiers seeking the flag of a defeated regiment in China.
Kiku
Chuji Kunisada vuelve a su pueblo natal y descubre que Jubei Matsui, un juez corrupto, ha sido el responsable de la destrucción de la familia Kunisada. Una nueva tragedia lleva a Chuji a unirse a una banda que vive en el bosque robando a los ricos para dárselo a los pobres, siempre con un ojo puesto en vengarse del Magistrado Matsui.
Azami
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
An Ishiro Honda film.
Toshiko
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
Fifth entry in the Company President Series.
Yurie
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
Tomoko Nomura
Hamako
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.
