A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.
Daisuke Serizawa (archive footage) (uncredited)
ゴジラシリーズ第26作。「ミレニアムシリーズ」第4作。1954年、ゴジラ日本上陸。絶体絶命の中、芹沢博士が開発した特殊兵器オキシジェン・デストロイヤーでゴジラを撃退。だが、博士はこの兵器に脅威を感じ、自らの命と共に消滅させる。この年、政府は対特殊生物防衛専門の“特生自衛隊”を組織。99年、再びゴジラ出現。特生自衛隊は迎撃するも苦戦を強いられる。政府は人工生物学者・湯原徳光を中心とする科学者チームへ対G兵器・機龍“メカゴジラ”開発を要請。2003年、ついにメカゴジラが完成する。そして、機龍の操縦士として、99年の戦いで仲間を失った特生自衛隊員・家城茜が任命された…。
Producer
In the year 198X, a young screenwriter, Ryohei Shimura, has been in a slump lately. Then an opportunity arises. He is asked to write a script for the comeback film of Akiko Ryuzoji, the legendary beauty who was known as Japan's Cleopatra. Ryohei met Akiko right away, but he couldn't believe his eyes. Akiko was young and good-looking, even though she was already an old woman. Ryohei moved into Akiko's house to work on his scenario. A film director, Mizumori, who lives with Akiko at the mansion, warns Ryohei, “Don't sleep with Akiko,” he says. In fact, Ryohei was chosen for the job for a surprising reason...
The film is composed of stock footage from the original Ultraman television series with additional newly filmed content, and it served as an “epilogue” as Ultraman returns to Earth for one final battle.
Dr. Daisuke Serizawa
ゴジラシリーズ第22作。「平成シリーズ」第7作にして完結編。スペースゴジラとの戦いから1年後、南太平洋のバース島が、地下の高純度天然ウランの熱水噴射による核爆発で消滅。ゴジラとリトルゴジラも姿を消した。その1ヶ月後、赤く燃え盛る姿で香港に上陸したゴジラは、赤い熱線を吐き香港市街を蹂躙。その赤い姿はいつ核爆発を起こしてもおかしくない状態を示唆していた。一方、東京湾岸では青海トンネルの工事現場でのパイプ溶解、しながわ水族館で魚が突如白骨化するなどの怪事件が発生。やがて東京湾岸近辺に謎の怪物が出現した。その正体はかつてゴジラを葬った際に使用したオキシジェン・デストロイヤーの影響で異常進化を遂げた恐るべき生物デストロイアであった。そんな中、御前崎沖にゴジラと酷似した巨大生物が出現、その正体はバース島の消滅で影響を受けたリトルゴジラであった。一方、四国・伊方原発を襲撃したゴジラは、自衛隊のスーパーＸIIIによるカドミウム弾攻撃により体内の核分裂が抑制され核爆発は免れるが、今度は体内温度上昇によるメルトダウンによる地球崩壊の危機が訪れる。メルトダウンを阻止すべく、羽田空港沖を舞台に、デストロイアを利用した国連Ｇフォースと自衛隊によるゴジラ 撃滅作戦が切って落とされる！
Space Command official
An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans.
Dr. Inoue Ryutarou
西暦2125年、太陽系外縁の開発に着手していた太陽系開発機構 (SSDO) は、エネルギー問題の解決と開発のシンボルとして、2140年の実現へ向けて「木星太陽化計画」（JS計画）を進めていた。その前線基地であるミネルヴァ基地で、計画主任・本田英二は長らく音信不通だった恋人マリアと再会を果たす。彼女は過激な環境保護団体「ジュピター教団」の破壊工作グループのメンバーとなっていた。英二は宇宙言語学者ミリセント・ウィレムに協力し、木星探査艇「JADE-III」で数万年前に太陽系を訪れた宇宙人の母船「ジュピターゴースト」の探査を行う。一方、英二の友人であるパイロット・キンと天文学者・井上を乗せて彗星源探査に向かっていた宇宙船「スペース・アロー」が謎の遭難を遂げる。計画責任者のマンスールの調査の末、原因はマイクロブラックホールとの接触によるものであり、しかも太陽に衝突するコースをとっている事が判明する。
Captain Roper
Brain is the world's greatest computer, and also the most intelligent being on planet Earth. One day, Brain decides to abandon its terrestrial moorings, and it's up to The Defenders to track it down. Unfortunately, Brain has developed an amazing army of deadly giant robots, including one with a huge "17" emblazoned on its chest-plate, with which it plans to subjugate its creators. A young boy whose family was killed by Brain's followers manages to activate Daitetsujin 17, which thereafter comes to his rescue whenever he is in danger from Brain's minions.
A student, running late on the day of the Tokyo Imperial University entrance exams, calls in a fake bomb threat in order to arrive on time.
City Employee
A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.
その日、警察官の英次は雪の降り続く銭函駅ホームで、妻の直子と、4歳になる息子義高に別れを告げた。離婚を承諾した直子は、動き出した汽車の中で、英次に笑って敬礼するが、その目には涙が溢れていた。苛酷な仕事と、オリンピックの射撃選手に選ばれ合宿生活が続いていたことも原因であった。傷心をひきずる中、ある日の検問中、英次の上司・相馬が英次の目前で連続警察官射殺犯“指名22号”・森岡茂に射殺された。中川警視の「お前には日本人全ての期待がわかっている」との言葉に、犯人を追跡したい英次の願いは聞き入れられなかった。テレビが東京オリンピックマラソン競技三位の円谷幸吉の自殺を報じていた。「これ以上走れない……」英次にその気持が痛いほどわかった。
昭和15年、船大工の小田切武市は、ひとり息子の正人が海軍兵学校に合格したと聞き、大喜び。一方、考古学者の本郷は、長男の英一が自分の反対を押し切って海軍少尉となったのに引きかえ、次男の真二が自分と同じ学問の道に進むと聞いて、ほっと胸をなでおろす。翌年、日本はハワイの真珠湾を攻撃して太平洋戦争が勃発。たえず死と隣り合わせにある英一は、恋人の陽子と結婚するが、彼女に指一本触れることなく戦場に舞い戻る。
Gaishi Nagaoka
日露戦争における激戦地・二百三高地での帝国陸軍の戦いを描いた歴史スペクタクル。
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
Kan Aizawa
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.
Defense Countermeasure Supreme Commander Oshi
スターウォーズブームの中製作された、映画「海底軍艦」の宇宙版リメイク。1980年代、世界各地でUFO騒ぎがおき、また電波障害により大混乱が発生した。これを宇宙からの侵略の前兆と捉えた国連宇宙局・宇宙防衛軍 (UNSF) は、宇宙防衛艦の設計建造を滝川正人に依頼、一方で隊員の訓練を開始した。しかし次第にその騒ぎは収まり、滝川は平和な地球には必要ないとして宇宙防衛艦の建造を中止、退任してしまった。 1988年秋、再びUFO騒動と大規模な通信障害が発生。国連宇宙局の三好は宇宙防衛艦「轟天」を完成させる使命を帯び、滝川を説得するため日本に帰還する。滝川は消極的だったが、彼を暗殺しようとした刺客から三好、室井、冬木によって救われる。さらに、宇宙ステーション・テラが「巨大なローマ船」という通信を残して爆発。国防軍は滝川に轟天の建造の再開と乗員の編成を要請する。 敵のUFOヘル・ファイターによって世界各地の大都市と地上の国連軍基地が壊滅状態となる中、滝川は隊員達を再招集、太平洋マウグ島で轟天の完成を急ぐ。侵入した工作員の妨害も排除しつつ轟天は完成、地球上を飛び回っていたヘル・ファイターを全滅させ、侵略軍の前線基地がある金星へと進撃を開始する。しかしその途中、三笠の遺体に扮して侵入した敵兵によって滝川の娘・ジュンが拉致されてしまう。三好は冬木達とともに、敵艦の心臓部爆破とジュンの救出のため大魔艦に潜入する。
「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第19作。旅先の寅さんは、伊予の国大洲で、わけありの若い女性・鞠子（真野響子）に親切にする。その後、大洲の城跡で浮世離れした老人と知り合うが、その老人こそ、世が世なら伊予の殿様・藤堂久宗（嵐寛壽郎）であった。饗応を受けた寅さんは、殿様の「次男の未亡人に一目会いたい」という願いを安請け合い。しばらくして殿様は、とらやに「寅次郎君はおりますか」とやってくるが…
Captain Gomes
Captain Gomes uses a flying battleship to battle the giant robot Daitetsujin 17. Theatrically-released abridgement of Episode 15 of the TV series.
Dr. Serizawa
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), plus WWII newsreel footage and clips from other monster 1950's movies. The re-edited film was then colorized via a process called Spectrorama 70 consisting of applying various colored gels to the black and white footage. The film's opening and ending also features new music composed by musician Vince Tempera (under the pseudonym Magnetic System).
Dr. Shinzô Mafune
ゴジラシリーズ第15作。本作をもって「昭和シリーズ」は幕を下ろすこととなる。
メカゴジラをゴジラに倒されたブラックホール第三惑星人だったが、地球侵略を諦めてはいなかった。第三惑星人は、学会を追われた異端の真船博士とその娘・桂と協力し、メカゴジラ第２号を完成させる。さらにチタノザウルスを怪獣コントロールシステムで操り、パワーアップしたメカゴジラと共にゴジラを追い詰めていく。
Environmental scientist #1
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.
Professor Hideto Miyajima
ゴジラシリーズ第14作。富士山麓でアンギラスを倒し、京浜石油コンビナート地帯にて破壊の限りを尽くすゴジラ。そこにもう一匹のゴジラが現れる。先に現れたゴジラは、地球侵略を目論むブラックホール第三惑星人が作り上げたメカゴジラだった。一方、沖縄でもキングシーサーが覚醒し、メカゴジラを倒すため、ゴジラと共に沖縄決戦に臨む！
1973年9月8日、『人間革命』のタイトルで東宝と創価学会系のシナノ企画の共同製作で映画化された
Furansu
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by Keiju Kobayashi) and the leader of the gang (played by Norihei Miki) have an interesting wartime backstory together that fuels much of the story.
Geki Kurokawa
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesaburo and Kakunosuke, under the name of Koemon, a retired peasant.
Dr. Sugata
海底油田の調査隊が遭難し、謎の潜水艦アルファー号に救助される。調査隊の三人が連れていかれたのは、海底に作られた平和な理想郷、赤道と日付変更線の交差する“緯度0”であった。一方アルファー号の艦長を生涯の仇敵と狙うマリク博士は、その平和なユートピアを破壊しようと画策した。アルファー号に救助された三人は、マリクの本拠地に乗り込んでいく。だがそこは、凶暴な巨大ネズミや合成獣グリフォンの跋扈する、アンチ・ユートピアだった……。
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
Suwa Yorishige
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?
Asakawa
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods.
Staff Officer Watanabe
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.
The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
Fujisaki
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。
Commander Sugahara - 302nd Air Group
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。
Professor Iwamoto
科学特捜隊のハヤタはパトロール中に謎の発光体と衝突、墜落してしまう……。ハヤタとウルトラマンの出会いや、人気怪獣の登場エピソードを再編集した、初の劇場公開作品。「ウルトラマン」入門篇としても楽しめる。
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.
Man With Turkish Hat
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.
Capt. Yamoto
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…。
Asakura
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.
Chamberlain
Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom in the Middle East, where they find intrigue and romance in the court of an evil king.
Omasa
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
Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
Komori
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
Dr. Kudo
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。
The first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
The 1965 Japanese yakuza film is the last episode of the Ankokugai series.
Sohei Masui
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
Chief Detective Okita
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！
Ryutaro Inoue
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
Mu Agent #23
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……。
Eburi's older brother
何をやっても面白くない。退屈な日々を過ごす洋酒メーカー勤務のサラリーマン江分利満は、酒の席で編集者と意気投合し、雑誌に小説を書くことになった。編集者は彼のくだ巻きの見事さに感心したのだった。満は自分の人生を振り返り、自分をモデルとした小説を書いて雑誌に発表。「江分利満氏の優雅な生活」と題された作品は評判を呼び、ついには直木賞を受賞。祝いの席上で、満はまたまたくだを巻いてしまう。
Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda
戸井田教授
「続社長道中記 女親分対決の巻」の笠原良三と「ニッポン無責任野郎」の田波靖男が共同で脚本を執筆、「にっぽん実話時代」の福田純が監督した若大将シリーズの第四作。撮影は「妻という名の女たち」の内海正治と「ホノルル・東京・香港」の西垣六郎。
Dr. Shigezawa (uncredited)
US version. The re-edited John Beck version of the film: released outside of Japan and restructured with new footage of American actors centering around a news report plot not present in the original. Eric Carter of United Nation News is joined by Dr. Arnold Johnson as a prehistoric monster emerges from hibernation while a pharmaceutical company seeks publicity with their own monster.
Senda's Aide
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air force to gather its most brilliant pilots into an elite squadron and use the unit to pinpoint attacks on the Americans. Disrespected by the kamikaze pilots who think the "non-suicidal" pilots are afraid, the unit redeems itself by stunning victories. But success leads the military leaders to expect too much of the unit, and new orders portend disaster.
Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.
Dr. Fujimora
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.
Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort.
Dr. Shigezawa
ゴジラシリーズ第3作。TTVの桜井と藤田は、TV番組の視聴率アップのため、“巨大なる魔神”を追って南海のファロ島を訪れた。その頃、北極海調査を行なっていた原潜シーホークは発光する奇怪な氷山と遭遇、その中からは休眠していたと思われるゴジラが現れた。桜井たちは強力な麻酔作用のある木の実と原住民の協力を得て、“魔神”ことキングコングの捕獲に成功する。しかし海上輸送の途中で目覚めたコングは単身で日本に上陸すると、同じく上陸していたゴジラに立ち向かっていった。
Captain Sugiyama
Endô
地球の6千倍もの質量を持つ恒星が発見された。土星探査船・隼によって、その恒星・ゴラスの軌道は地球を目指していることが判明する。地球上の爆発物ではゴラスを粉砕出来ないことを知った国連は、地球その物をロケットに変え、公転軌道上からの離脱を決意する。各国の科学技術者は総力を結集、南極に巨大なロケット噴射口を建造するが……。
Samurai
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……。
Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.
Shima
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.
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
Doctor
日本の貨物船がロリシカ国の水爆実験場があるインファント島の近くで沈没した事故を取材するため、新聞記者の福田とカメラマンのミチは島へ。そこで福田たちは先住民たちを調査する中条と知り合う。ジャングルで一行は、小美人という身長約30cmの双子の妖精と出会うが、日ロ合同調査隊のロリシカ人ネルソンは後日、島を再訪し、小美人を捕らえて見世物にする。やがて島の守護神である怪獣モスラの幼虫が日本近海に現われ……。
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).
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.
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.
Hayatonosho 'Hayato' Susukida
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.
Kozo Kinugawa
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.
太平洋戦争の真っ最中、中国大陸の北支戦線。日本軍からやっかいもの扱いされ危険な前線に駆り出されてばかりの左文字隊は、霧の中で八路軍にばったり遭遇し四方を囲まれてしまう。だが左文字隊長と八路軍の梁隊長は、お互い元気なときに正々堂々と戦おうと平和的に別れた。左文字隊は北原少尉とともに消えた日本軍旗の捜索を命じられるのだったが…。
Toriumi
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to cooperate in a smuggling scheme, conflict arises between the two friends. Falsely blamed for murder, Kikumori is blackmailed into an attempt to sabotage Kaji's boats and kill him. But the friendship between the two men proves an obstacle to the gangleader's plans.
Fleet Staff Officer
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.
Inspector Kobayashi
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……。
Kishimoto
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and blackmailed by his lover's neighbor, the salaryman's lies lead him on a path to destruction.
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investigate the death of the wife of gangster Tetsuo Maruyama of the Kozuka gang, probably at the hands of one of the Oka gang. During a gang gunfight, Maruyama is rescued by Detective Fujioka and the two become friends. But Maruyama insists on avenging his wife's murder, even if it means conflict with his new friend.
Kibino Takehiko
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.
Jiro Hidekuni
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokuro, steals the money from Jibu, but after meeting and befriending Taro, Rokuro decides to return the money to Taro. But Taro's unscrupulous brother Jiro falsely accuse Taro of the theft, and Taro reactively joins the outlaw band and encourages them to steal from the nobles and give to the poor.
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。
Akaboshi
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
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.
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
Dr. Fujimora, bomb expert
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.
Detective Makimo
The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.
Inspector Tominaga
Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
Tomonori
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. In Part II, the search for the scrolls continues.
Ryoichi Shiraishi
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.
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
Tokuoka
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
An Ishiro Honda film.
Tomonori
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.
Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin
Professor Kyuichiro Kashiwagi
九州の阿蘇山にある炭坑で、坑道に巣くう巨大なヤゴ・メガヌロンの幼虫による犠牲者が発生した。事件を調査する河村は、その怪物をもしのぐ、巨大な怪鳥の姿を目撃する。その怪鳥・ラドンこそ、各地で相次ぐ災害の元凶だったのだ。その音速を超える飛翔速度はソニックブームを起こし、街はまたたくまに壊滅していく。そして、自衛隊の圧倒的な火力によってラドンを追いつめたかに思われたとき、もう一体のラドンが現れたのだった……。
The third instalment in the Shacho Series.
Dr. Serizawa
日本の「ゴジラ」(1954年)に、ハリウッドで追加撮影されたシーンを加えて再編集されたハリウッド上映版。
アメリカの新聞記者スティーブ・マーティン（レイモンド・バー）は、カイロへの取材に向かう途中に立ち寄った日本の東京で、ゴジラの上陸に遭遇する。スティーブの回想によって、ゴジラに蹂躙東京の惨状が描かれる。
Shunsuke Iba
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo school because of his propensity for street fighting. He goes to work for a gangster named Joji, but when he realizes that Joji is mixed up in the slave trade, Koseki helps the police in their attempts to foil Joji.
Seijuro Yoshioka (uncredited)
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
Horikoshi no Masakichi
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.
Sugimoto
1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Seijuro Yoshioka
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
Daisuke Serizawa
原水爆実験の影響で、大戸島の伝説の怪獣ゴジラが復活し、東京に上陸。帝都は蹂躙され廃墟と化した。ゴジラ抹殺の手段はあるのか・・・。戦後の日本映画界に特撮怪獣映画というジャンルを築いた、記念すべきゴジラ映画第1作。核の恐怖を描いた、本多猪四郎の真摯な本編ドラマと、円谷英二のリアリズム溢れる特撮演出が絶妙のコンビネーションを見せ、「ゴジラ」の名を一躍世界に轟かせた傑作。
Seijuro Yoshioka
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
Kozo Miyoshi
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
First lieutenant Noguchi
This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question "What is war?", showing the human bonds between Japan and America, Japanese military tactics which had little regard for life, and the attitude of Japanese military personnel who treated their actions as if they were just doing a job. This film contains few battle scenes, concentrating instead on the love stories of young officers and female members of the community in this lonely air base.
三流どこの補習学校教師野呂は、税務署吏員金森風吉の家に間借りしている。独身者だ。久かたぶりに銀座へ出て目をまわし、トラックに轢かれそこなった。当分右腕が利かず、学生泡田に代って黒板に字をかいてもらうが、かき賃一時間百円也を請求され、びっくりする。学校経営者の土建屋から夜間担任に格下げされ、無体な時間外勤務を強いられても文句ひとついえぬ野呂が、心ひそかに想うのは金森の娘－－銀行事務員のカン子であった。カン子は無類のガンコ娘で、同僚とはりあい恋人とはりあい、張りのない野呂なんか念頭にもない。野呂と金森は散歩中、戦記物で売りだし今は時めく代議士の五津元大佐に会釈された、というので大感激、警官の甲賀をまじえ外食券食堂で五津礼讃の一くさりをはじめる。途中から一枚加わった学生泡田と甲賀が、話のはしばしに互いの身分を知り、掴みあいとなる。つられて食堂中が大格闘、野呂は丼をもってにげだした。この顛末にもこりず、野呂は学生ちの誘いにのってメーデーに参加宮城前の紛糾にまきこまれて拘置される。同じ署内に選挙違反で検挙された五津もいたが、前後して裟婆に出てからは、五津は「牢獄記」出版でまたまた大ヒット、野呂は学校もクビ、しごと探しに必死である。漸く金森の妻らんの世話でミシン会社荷造り係の口がみつかり、今や入社詮衡へでかけよう、というまぎわ、カン子自殺未遂の報がくる。恋人との結婚を反対されてカンシャクをおこしたのである。が、無我夢中の野呂は「人でなし！」と呼ばうらんの声を背に、とっととわき目もふらず詮衡場へかけつけた。...
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in an avalanche, Yukiko leaves the mountains in despair and takes a job in a bar where she becomes deeply involved in the personal lives of several of the patrons. One day she thinks she sees Shinkichi alive, but it turns out to be a gangster named Hayakawa, a man on the run who bears an astonishing resemblance to Yukiko's lost love. Against her better judgment, she is drawn to help Hayakawa, though clearly danger follows him.
