Yoshio Tsuchiya

A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.

日本映画黄金期を代表する伝説的俳優、三船敏郎（1920-97）の生涯と作品について解説する。

An independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world's greatest monster, Godzilla. Filmed on location in Tokyo to document kaiju-related events, locations and to interview cast, crew and fans of the Godzilla series about their passion and experiences with the King of the Monsters.

日本映画ライターのノーマン・イングランドが、「ゴジラ」製作に携わった様々な人々の証言を追ったドキュメンタリ映画。最初のゴジラを作り出した人として、円谷英二の紹介から、井上泰幸、代表的な３人のゴジラアクター、時代の移り変わり、そして未来までを網羅。インタビューに登場する新旧スタッフは20名近くで、日本の特撮技術、特撮美術に関する貴重な証言をまとめたドキュメンタリフィルムとなっている。

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in the art of culinary excellence and running a successful business.

ゴジラシリーズ第18作。「平成シリーズ」第3作。 1992年7月、東京上空に巨大な未確認飛行物体が飛来し、２３世紀から来た未来人が姿を現す。彼らは、タイムトラベルでゴジラ誕生の時代まで歴史を遡り、その誕生を阻止する『ゴジラ抹殺計画』を呼びかける。計画は成功するが、ゴジラの消滅と同時にキングギドラが日本に来襲。すべては未来人の策略によるものだった。さらにはゴジラがより強力な怪獣へと変貌し復活を果たし、最大の危機が日本を襲うのであった！

昭和２０年。戦争による被害が広がる中、内閣は霊能力者・辰宮雪子の能力により連合軍の幹部たちを呪い殺すための計画を進行していた。しかし、人々の怨みを受け復活を果した魔人・加藤保憲が再び帝都を破滅に導くために活動を開始する。

A photographer for a weekly magazine becomes obsessed with Nami, a woman he first saw getting brutally raped in an underground porn video. After tracking her down, he begins an affair with her, initially unaware that she is also in an abusive relationship with Muraki, the man responsible for the video that started it all.

The film takes place in the popular tourist spot of Karuizawa. A working class student named Junichi becomes a waiter there in order to mix in with the upper classes. A stylish Roman Porno directed by Konuma, commemorating Nikkatsu's 70th anniversary.

A couple of sculptors who caused a traffic accident and changed their lives are led to a crime. The lives of the up-and-coming sculptor Sugio Nishikawa and Maiko have changed completely since the traffic accident. Sugio was forced to live in a wheelchair, and the quality of his work deteriorated. One day, Sugio insured Maiko for 50 million life insurance and forced her to cooperate with insurance fraud.

Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to be her guarantor so that she could join a Nishijin weaver workshop. Yumi wishes to put her dark past behind her, but she's exposed by an ex-client. Despite the unwavered support of the old cop, she sees no way out and uses her seductive body again to get what she wants. Hiroyuki, her co-worker at the weaver workshop, is a pure-hearted young man who may redeem Yumi from her deadly path as a femme fatale.

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.

セルジオ島にイカの怪物ゲゾラが出現した。カメラマンの工藤は、アジア開発の宣伝部員アヤ子と生物学者の宮、自称風俗研究家の小畑と共に島に向かう。宮と工藤が調査のため海中に潜った時、突然周囲が青光り、海底が吹き上がるとゲゾラがおそってきた。アヤ子からゲゾラがかがり火に慌てたことを聞いた二人は、島民と協力しゲゾラをガソリンで撃退した。しかし、その他以内から這い出たアメーバ状の物体が、カニの化け物ガニメとなって再び工藤たちに襲い掛かった。さらに新たに巨大ガメ・ガメーバも現れた。南海を舞台に、大怪獣の決戦が始まった！

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold that's soon to come over the pass. When the Ronin's assignment becomes clear, to help the gang, he's ordered to kill the inn's residents, including a woman he's rescued from an abusive husband. He's reluctant to murder innocent people; then he learns that the gold shipment is a trap and he's part of a double cross. How he sorts through these divided loyalties tests of his samurai honor, and perhaps of his love for a woman.

An electrifying journey into the nether regions of the late-‘60s Tokyo underground. A loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex in which a gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father.

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.

ゴジラシリーズ第9作。２０世紀末、国連科学委員会は小笠原諸島のとある島に怪獣ランドを建設。ゴジラをはじめとする怪獣たちを一堂に集め、平和裏に管理していた。だが、怪獣ランドに謎の毒ガスが充満。その直後、怪獣ランドの怪獣たちは世界各地を襲撃し始めるのだった。国連科学委員会はキラアク星人の地球征服計画を突き止め、新鋭宇宙艇ムーンライトＳＹ－３を発進させ、月にあるキラアクの怪獣操縦装置の奪取に成功。地球怪獣連合の反撃が始まる。だがキラアク星人は地球にキングギドラを送り込み、形勢逆転を狙うが…。

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.

ゴジラシリーズ第8作。南太平洋の孤島ゾルゲル島で行われていた気象コントロール実験・シャーベット計画が、謎の妨害電波を受け失敗し、島は異常高温に見舞われてしまう。妨害電波の発信源だった巨大な卵からミニラが誕生し、電波を察知した親ゴジラがゾルゲル島に上陸。ミニラを狙うカマキラスや、クモンガとの戦いが開始される。

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.

昭和天皇や閣僚たちが御前会議において降伏を決定した1945年（昭和20年）8月14日の正午から、国民に対してラジオ（日本放送協会）の玉音放送を通じてポツダム宣言の受諾を知らせる8月15日正午までの24時間を描いている。

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakami’s fascinating story. Despite his humble birth, the orphan Sasaki Kojiro (Onoe Kikunosuke) is determined to become the foremost swordsman in all Japan, a title that traditionally belongs to a nobleman. At fencing school, young Kojiro receives the contempt of his classmates because of his superior swordsmanship. When rumors of the upcoming civil war between Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans spread, Kojiro leaves the school and sets out, seizing every opportunity to realize his dream.

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.

Japanese war movie.

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.

Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life

ゴジラシリーズ第6作となる日米合作映画。木星１３番目の新惑星・Ｘ星が発見され、Ｘ星探査に派遣された地球連合宇宙局の宇宙パイロットたちは、Ｘ星人と遭遇してしまう。Ｘ星人たちはガンの特効薬と引き換えに、キングギドラ撃退のためゴジラとラドンを借りたいと人類に申し出る。だが、彼らの真の目的は地球侵略にあり、ゴジラ、ラドンをＸ星へ連れ出し、電磁波で洗脳すると、キングギドラとともに地球に送り込み人類への攻撃を開始する。果たして人類にＸ星人の野望を打ち砕く術はあるのか？

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

第二次大戦末期、ドイツから極秘裏に運ばれた一つの秘密兵器があった。それは人造人間“フランケンシュタインの不死の心臓”である。日本軍はこの心臓をもとに、人間兵器を造ろうとしたのだ。だがそれは、広島の原爆によって研究途上で失われてしまう。そして十数年後、その心臓から再生した少年が登場したのだった……。

1943年5月、北太平洋上のアッツ島で、米軍の猛攻に遭った日本軍が玉砕。同じアリューシャン列島にあるキスカ島の守備隊員約5200名は、これによって孤立。大本営の海軍部では、彼らを見殺しにするのもやむなし、との意見が大勢を占める中、司令長官の川島中将は、彼らを何としてでも救えと、大村少将に隠密の撤退作戦を任命。大村少将は、濃霧をついて敵の包囲をかいくぐり、キスカ島に艦隊を接近させる機会をうかがう。

山本周五郎原作の『赤ひげ診療譚』を基に、巨匠・黒澤明監督が三船敏郎、加山雄三主演で映画化したヒューマニズム溢れる人情ドラマ。江戸時代の小石川養生所を舞台に、そこを訪れる庶民の人生模様と通称赤ひげと呼ばれる所長と青年医師の心の交流を描く。長崎で和蘭陀医学を学んだ青年・保本登は、医師見習いとして小石川養生所に住み込むことになる。養生所の貧乏くささとひげを生やし無骨な所長・赤ひげに好感を持てない保本は養生所の禁を犯して破門されることさえ望んでいた。しかし、赤ひげの診断と医療技術の確かさを知り、また彼を頼る貧乏な人々の姿に次第に心を動かされていくのだった……。

7人の若者を乗せたヨットが、嵐のため無人島に漂着した。その島を探索した結果、彼らより先に、一艘の難破船が漂着していたことが判明する。だが乗員の姿はどこにもなく、ただあたりは奇妙な形状のキノコが群生しているのみだった。やがて食料の残りが少なくなり、彼らは恐る恐るそのキノコを食し始める。そしてそのキノコを口にした者は、人間の姿を失い、奇怪なキノコ・マタンゴへと変身していくのだった……。原作はホジスンの「闇の声」。

During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is now working as a business executive. He meets Mintsura Gunji, the boss of a large company, who offers him to go to the Philippines and bring back the gold.

ナショナル・シューズの権藤専務は、自分の息子と間違えられて運転手の息子が誘拐され、身代金3千万円を要求される。苦悩の末、権藤は運転手のために全財産を投げ出して3千万円を用意する。無事子どもは取り戻したが、犯人は巧みに金を奪い逃走してしまい、権藤自身は会社を追われてしまう……。

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kōzuke no suke. The ronin avenged their master's honor after patiently waiting and planning for over a year to kill Kira. In turn, the ronin were themselves forced to commit seppuku for committing the crime of murder.

凄腕の浪人が、上役の不正を暴こうと立ち上がった9人の若侍に助太刀する痛快アクション時代劇。薄暗い社殿で密議をこらしていた9人の若侍。上役を告発するも逆に窮地に陥っていた。それを図らずも聞いていた浪人は、権謀に疎い彼らに同情し一肌脱ぐことに……。

京南大学法学部の学生、田沼雄一は水泳部のエースであり若大将というニックネームで呼ばれている。おっとりとした性格で授業中にドカ弁を食べる豪快さもある。麻布の老舗のすき焼き屋・田能久の長男でもあるが、謹厳実直な父親の久太郎とは意見が合わず、ぶつかってばかりいる。

Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was murdered.

やくざと元締めが対立するさびれた宿場町。そこへ一人の浪人者がやってくる。立ち寄った居酒屋のあるじに、早くこの町を出ていった方がいいと言われるが、その男は自分を用心棒として売り込み始める。やがて男をめぐって、二つの勢力は対立を深めていく……。ハメットの『血の収穫』を翻案、時代劇に西部劇の要素を取り込んだ娯楽活劇。

“東宝変身人間シリーズ”第3作。 生体実験の犠牲で、身体をガス化できる特殊能力を持ってしまった男と、彼の愛する美しい女、春日流家元・藤千代との悲恋を描いたSFスリラー。強盗殺人を捜査する岡本警部補たちは、容疑者として日本舞踊の家元・藤千代に目を付けた。だが、彼女は無実であると主張する男が現れる。彼・水野こそ、自在に身体を気体化できる能力を以て、強盗を働いていた真犯人だった。

日本未利用土地開発公団の副総裁、岩淵の娘佳子と、秘書の西幸一の披露宴が執り行なわれようとしていた。しかし、この西という男、実は5年前、新庁舎の建設に絡む不正入札疑惑で自ら命を絶ち事件の幕引きを図った課長補佐・古谷の一人息子だった……

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.

一人の男が銃剣で刺殺されるという事件が起こった。犯人を追いつめたものの、男の姿は密室から忽然と消えうせていた。事件を追う桐岡記者は、物質転送を研究する仁木博士が、犠牲者と犯人・須藤を繋ぐカギであることを知る。犠牲者を含む大西たちは、14年前、須藤と仁木博士を生き埋めにしていたのだった……。

東宝が「地球防衛軍」の姉妹編として製作した大作SF映画。近未来、宇宙ステーションJSS3が謎の円盤群に破壊され、地球上では鉄橋や汽船が空中へ舞い上がる原因不明の怪事件が起きる。国際宇宙科学センターは対策に奔走するが、メンバーには宇宙人スパイが紛れ込んでいた。地球侵略を企てる宇宙人ナタール人は、月に基地をつくっていたのだった。スピップ1号、2号による月調査と、月面での攻防戦を何とか生き延びた宇宙科学センターのメンバーたちだが、ナタールの地球全面攻撃の日は刻一刻と近づきつつあった。それに対抗すべく人類は宇宙戦闘機と地対空熱戦砲を量産し迎撃態勢を整えていく。そしてついにナタールの円盤群が地球に襲来。ここに地球人類対ナタールの決戦の火ぶたが切っておとされた。

太平洋戦争における日本の敗北を目前に控えた昭和20年の初夏、河本艦長率いる潜水艦イー57は某国の親日派高官父娘を乗せて極秘裏に和平工作を図るべく、カナリー諸島へ向けて出航した。乗組員の多くは徹底抗戦を主張し、和平にも否定的だったが、敵との遭遇などさまざまな困難を経て皆の意思はひとつにまとまっていく。しかしやがてポツダム宣言が発令される。

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."

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.

戦国時代、秋月家の武将・六郎太は、生き残った世継ぎの雪姫と共に隠し砦(とりで)にこもる。六郎太たちは、一獲千金をもくろみ、戦に参戦した農民の太平と又七に軍資金の黄金を背負わせ、敵陣を突破して友好国へ逃げ込もうとするが…。次々にふりかかる絶体絶命の危機を切り抜けていく大脱出劇。 狂言回し的な百姓コンビが、後に「スターウォーズ」の“C-3PO”“R2-D2”のモデルとなったことはあまりにも有名な話。

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, Who decided to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair.

The story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.

An Ishiro Honda film.

火星と木星の間に分布するアステロイドベルトは、かつて存在していた惑星ミステロイドの爆発によって生まれたものだった。ミストロイドの住人・ミステリアンは新たな居住地を地球に定め、富士の裾野に巨大なドーム基地を作り上げる。そして地球人に対し、地球人女性との結婚と居住権を宣言した。防衛軍のミステリアン対策委員会は、地球の科学力を結集、自衛のためミステリアンに総攻撃をかける……。

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

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

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.

シェイクスピアの『マクベス』を日本の戦国時代に置き換え様式美に拘り描いた戦国武将の一大悲劇。鷲津武時は謀反を起こした敵を討ち、その帰途の森で出会った老婆から不思議な予言を聞く。やがて予言通り事が運び始めると、欲望に取り憑かれた妻にそそのかされて主を殺し、自ら城主の地位につくのだったが……。

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.

町工場を経営する財産家・中島喜一は突然、原水爆とその放射能に対して強い恐怖を抱くようになり、地球上で唯一安全と思われる南米ブラジルへの親類縁者全員の移住を計画する。しかし、このあまりにも突拍子もない行動に対し、現実の生活が脅かされると感じた家族は喜一を準禁治産者として認めてもらうため裁判にかけるのだった。

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

ゴジラシリーズ第2作。岩戸島に遭難した飛行士によって、ゴジラとアンキロサウルス、通称アンギラスの闘いが目撃された。対策本部はゴジラを監視下に置き、本土上陸を阻止しようとする。しかし、脱走した囚人が起こしたコンビナートの火災が、ゴジラを大阪に誘導してしまう。そしてゴジラを追って、アンギラスも姿を現わした。世紀の闘争の末、アンギラスは倒れゴジラは海へ去ったが、大阪の街は廃虚と化す……。

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.

A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exploration of the criminal facts behind the explosion of a freighter in the harbor. He goes undercover with a band of drug smugglers, but his methods threaten to destroy him as well as his case.

Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his best friend who has gone off to war with his sister Reiko to marry her, but he is not ready to abandon his love for Kumiko, a nurse at his mother's hospital.

麦の刈入れが終わる頃。とある農村では野武士たちの襲来を前に恐怖におののいていた。百姓だけで闘っても勝ち目はないが、麦を盗られれば飢え死にしてしまう。百姓たちは野盗から村を守るため侍を雇うことを決断する。やがて、百姓たちは食べるのもままならない浪人たち7人を見つけ出し、彼らとともに野武士に対抗すべく立ち上がる……。

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.