Yoshitami Kuroiwa

東京から「重大な発見をした」という手紙を受け取り、やってきた考古学者・稗田。だが手紙の主である八部と女生徒・月島令子は行方不明になっていた。八部の息子・まさおと一緒に二人を探す稗田だが、校内で謎の生物に襲われる……。諸星大二郎の「妖怪ハンター」のエピソード「海竜祭の夜」を原作にアレンジし映画化した『鉄男』塚本晋也初のメジャー作品。

Comedy film.

In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.

ゴジラシリーズ第16作。ゴジラ生誕30周年記念として前作から9年振りに制作された。1975年まで制作された「昭和シリーズ」との繋がりはなく、第1作(1954年)「ゴジラ」の直接の続編としてリブートされた、俗に言う「平成シリーズ」の第1作。大黒島沖で遭難した漁船の生存者・奥村は荒れ狂う嵐の中で巨大な怪物の姿を目撃していた。奥村を救助した東都日報の牧は生物学者・林田の助言を求めるが、林田は30年前に帝都を襲撃し東京湾で葬られたゴジラが目覚めたと推測。はたしてゴジラは復活していた。ソ連原潜を沈め、静岡井浜原発に現れると放射能を吸収し海へと消えたゴジラ。だがそれは破滅へのプロローグでしかなかった。

ゴジラシリーズ第16作。ゴジラ生誕30周年記念として前作から9年振りに制作された。1975年まで制作された「昭和シリーズ」との繋がりはなく、第1作(1954年)「ゴジラ」の直接の続編としてリブートされた、俗に言う「平成シリーズ」の第1作。大黒島沖で遭難した漁船の生存者・奥村は荒れ狂う嵐の中で巨大な怪物の姿を目撃していた。奥村を救助した東都日報の牧は生物学者・林田の助言を求めるが、林田は30年前に帝都を襲撃し東京湾で葬られたゴジラが目覚めたと推測。はたしてゴジラは復活していた。ソ連原潜を沈め、静岡井浜原発に現れると放射能を吸収し海へと消えたゴジラ。だがそれは破滅へのプロローグでしかなかった。

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.

Murder case.

Remake of the 1957 film "The Stormy Man".

After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

Depicting the friendship of three boys in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

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。

A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The three decide to help her.

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.

3 people are fresh and naive so they try to go from wandering around lonely to becoming a lively young bunch. Tanokin’s youthful energy explodes!

A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it.

国営放送の報道部員・南は、京都で開催された国際科学者会議でUFOの実在を訴えた直後に失踪した兵藤博士の行方を追ううちに、世界各地にUFOが頻繁に現われ、それと遭遇した人間の血が青く変質する事実を知る。南はその事実を報道しようとするが、放送局に政府の圧力がかかって頓挫せざるを得なった上に左遷させられる。青い血の人間が世界中で急激に増加する事実を各国の政府が隠匿する裏には、異星人への疑いに不安を膨れ上がらせた主要国指導部による陰惨極まりない謀略が隠されていた。世界規模で人権の一切を否定された青い血の人々に降りかかる惨劇の数々。そしてそれは悲劇への道でもあった。

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.

Wealthy big game hunter (Boone), along with his group, gets trapped in pre-historic times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.

Takeshi, bound to be an outlaw youth, boards at the home of his female schoolmate who works at the family restaurant in devil-may-care Akasaka.

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

Remake of 1949 film

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。

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Japanese crime thriller

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.

国内最大の激戦となった沖縄戦の全貌を圧倒的な迫力で映像化した戦争大作！太平洋戦争で日本が経験した唯一の国内戦として多数の犠牲者を生んだ悲劇の沖縄決戦を、岡本喜八監督が壮大なスケールで描いた戦争大作。１９７１年の沖縄返還協定調印という当時の時局を背景に製作された。敗色濃厚な日本軍は、連合軍を沖縄で食い止めるため、大量の兵力を注ぎ込んだ。しかし連合軍の空爆によって、沖縄第三十二軍はあえなく四散、やがて米軍の上陸をゆるしてしまう・・・。

ゴジラシリーズ第11作。当時社会問題となっていた公害問題を前面に打ち出し、サイケデリックな映像を取り入れた異色作。ヘドロで汚された駿河湾の河口で巨大なオタマジャクシに似た生物が見つかり、さらには怪物によるタンカー事故が相次いで発生。海洋学者の矢野は、怪物がヘドロと宇宙鉱物から生まれた生命体であると推察する。謎の怪物ヘドラは主食であるヘドロを求めて工業地帯を襲撃し、次第に巨大な怪獣へと変貌していく。硫酸ミストをまき散らし深刻な公害被害により人々が次々と倒れていく中、富士山麓にてゴジラとの決戦が近づく。

1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

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.

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

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.

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.

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

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。

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.

オンボロ・アパートに住むさえない大学講師・桔梗信治。彼のもとに、ある日(大日本人口調査審議会理事)と名乗る男が現れる。審議会の決定で桔梗は殺されることになったと言う。この審議会とは、ナチスの残党に貢献するため無駄な人間を殺そうとする狂信的団体だった。「だから君には死んでもらう」襲いかかる殺し屋。驚いた桔梗は警察に駆け込んだが、誰も信じてくれない。桔梗はたったひとりで審議会と戦う決意をした。仕込み傘、催眠術、殺人ベルト…………次から次へと奇襲を仕掛けてくる13人の殺人狂たち。しかし、桔梗はたまたま選ばれた被害者でなく、ナチスの狙いははじめから桔梗にあったのである……!これは岡本喜八版007である。

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.

Japanese war movie.

Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa

物語始めの舞台は、甲州と江戸。御嶽山奉納の剣術試合で、宇津木文之丞との勝負をゆずらなかった机竜之助は、文之丞の妻だったお浜と夫婦になる。大菩薩峠で、机竜之助に斬られた老人の孫のお松は、七兵衛の世話で厄介になった生け花の師匠のところから、神尾主膳の屋敷へ奉公にあがる。竜之助が組する江戸の浪士組（新徴組の前身）では、近藤勇と芹沢鴨が頭角を顕す。舞台の後半は、清河八郎の暗殺以後、新徴組が新撰組へ、江戸から京都へ移っていく。大菩薩峠と御嶽山奉納試合からの因縁、近藤勇や芹沢鴨の新徴組に身を置いた流れに、文久3年、机竜之助の音無しの剣術は、その在り方が求められていく。

Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Released alongside Invasion of Astro Monster.

Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi is the fourth instalment of five films in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series. The film is a parody of James Bond-style spy movies, and was used by Woody Allen, along with footage from the third instalment, in one of his first films, "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", in which the original dialogue is redubbed in English to make the plot about a secret egg salad recipe.

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.

"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.

植木等の「日本一」シリーズ第３弾。後藤又自動車に補欠採用された中等（なかひとし・植木）は、ゴマをすれなかったばかりに万年課長だった父の言葉を思い出す。"ゴマもすり様で出世の近道、でっかいゴマをすりあててごらん"―。等は調子の良いゴマすり攻勢で上層部に近づき、社長の娘（中尾）とアメリカ人２世の飛行士（藤田）の仲を取り持つ。それがきっかけで、等は社長から自社の飛行機、イーグレット売り込みのため、なんとアメリカ支店長に任命される。

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.

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

A 1964 war film directed by Kengo Furusawa

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。

An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.

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

A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been smuggling arms to the enemy. The remaining samurai try in vain to coerce him back, but their efforts are thwarted by crooked warriors who launch an attack...

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.

東宝によるクレージーキャッツ主演コメディシリーズの第一弾。通称"無責任"ものの一作目でもある。大平洋酒に入社した主人公・平均（たいらひとし）は舌先三寸で周囲の人間を味方に引き入れ、とんとん拍子の出世を果たす。主人公の軽妙なキャラクターと荒唐無稽なストーリーが受け、東宝のドル箱シリーズとなった。

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

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).

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.

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.)

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.

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…。

Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral drama. When things get too hot, he bails and goes to work for a prominent politician (Koreya Senda). Soon he has impregnated the daughter (Yoko Tsukasa) of his boss, but he figures marriage will solve his current problems. His happiness is short-lived when he is stalked by a union radical he once double-crossed who now seeks vengeance.

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.

第二次世界大戦末期の北支戦線。クズ兵士ばかりを集め危険な任務に当たらせる“独立愚連隊”と呼ばれる部隊に、従軍記者の荒木がやってくる。交戦中に中国人慰安婦と心中したという、見習士官のことを調べに来たという。実は荒木の正体は大久保元軍曹であり、彼こそ見習士官の実の兄であり、弟の死の真相を知るため戦地に赴いたのだった。死んだ慰安婦の妹から紙片を渡された大久保は、弟が上官の不正を部隊長に告発しようとして、その上官から逆に殺されたことを知る。

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 mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.

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.

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

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

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Period romantic drama.