Hisaya Itô

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry and actually she doesn't seem too upset about the situation. At the same time, a bunch of farmers are being slaughtered by a corrupt group running a tobacco smuggling ring. They're being investigated by a man who is documenting their crimes and when they find out about it, they torture him for information but get none. It's not long before he and Okatsu's mother wind up dead and she sets out for revenge.

A young couple, composed by a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues in director's Kiyoshi Nishimura's debut film, almost totally filmed in one space.

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 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.

ゴジラシリーズ第7作。行方不明の兄を探す少年、大学生２人、銀行強盗ら４人が乗りあわせたヨットが、エビラの襲撃を受けて遭難。南海の孤島レッチ島に漂着する。彼らはそこで、インファント島の住人を拉致し、核弾頭を秘密裏に造る秘密結社・赤イ竹の存在を知る。彼らはレッチ島に眠っていたゴジラを覚醒させて、インファント島の島民たちの救出と、島からの脱出を画策するが…。

ひとつの細胞から生まれた兄弟怪獣、海の怪獣・ガイラと山の怪獣・サンダ。それぞれ善と悪の属性を持ち、性格の異なる2匹はやがて都市で死闘を演じることに。

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

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。

ゴジラシリーズ第5作。異常気象に見舞われる日本。そんな中、金星人を名乗る女性が地球の危機を予言すると、阿蘇火口からラドンが、太平洋からゴジラが姿を現す。更には、黒部谷に落下した大隕石から金星を滅亡させた宇宙最強の怪獣キングギドラが出現し、日本各地を荒らしまわる。未曾有の地球の危機に、小美人よりインファント島から招聘されたモスラは、ゴジラとラドンに共闘を求めた。ここに地球三大怪獣対宇宙超怪獣の地上最大の決戦が始まる！

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

一万二千年前、地殻変動のため海底に沈んだムウ帝国。だが彼らは海底に都市を作り、世界征服を企んでいた。そのころ終戦間際にこつぜんと姿を消した神宮司大佐たちは、孤島でひそかに海底軍艦を建造していた。それを察知したムウ帝国は、神宮司の娘・真琴と恋人・旗中を連れ去ってしまう。やがて始まるムウ帝国の総攻撃。そしてその砲火の中、ついにムウ帝国撃滅を決意した神宮司は、海底軍艦を出動させる……。

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

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.

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs. Godzilla.

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza running a dope ring. Battling gangsters all the way, Takashi searches for his former girlfriend, now a drug addict.

In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this profession they were sent to a reformatory. This is a story of one of these brave women Kuniko who is released from the reformatory and tries to build a new life.

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.

“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。

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。

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

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.

Tomu Uchida's Gyakushu Gokumon Toride is a masterpiece which treats class struggle in the end of Samurai era(it's a fiction). The story is based on the legend of William Tell, changed at the end of age of Samurai.

Horror film directed by Toshikazu Kôno.

深夜の深川でタクシー強盗殺人事件が起った。巧妙な手口から犯人を常習犯と睨んだ警視庁捜査一課の長田、宮川の両刑事は、遺留品を手掛りに柳橋に飛び、農林省官吏須見に嫌疑がかかるが、彼の情婦由美の言葉から、白マスク、革ジャンパーの男が犯人と推定されるに至った。だが、この事件が解決を見ないうちに、続いて新橋で同一手口による新事件が発生し、今度は運転手の屍体が見つからなかった。

The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on his late father's enemies.

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.