A narrative feature made from a collage of clips from various films around the world.
Seiji Ayabe
16세기 일본 전국시대, 손님들과 함께 멧돼지 사냥을 끝낸 성주 이치몬지 히데토라는 일흔의 나이로 자신의 권력을 아들들에게 넘겨주겠다는 결심을 굳힌다. 그리고 사냥을 함께 한 다른 영주는 자신의 딸을 그의 아들과 혼인시키려 한다. 아들들을 따로 불러 모은 그는 오랫동안 곰곰이 생각해서 내린 결정이라며 장남인 타로가 자신의 뒤를 이어 가문을 이끌 것이라 선언한다. 그리고 둘째, 셋째 아들인 지로와 사부로에게는 두 번째와 세 번째 성과 그에 딸린 영토를 주겠다고 한다. 그는 난세에 외곽에서 호위대를 거느리고 자식들에게 기대어 안락하게 여생을 보낼 생각이였다. 하지만 막내인 사부로는 그 자리에서 아버지가 망령이 들었다고 비난하게 되고 이에 분개한 히데토라는 사부로와 절연한다. 충직한 탄고가 사부로를 감싸지만 그는 들은 체 만 체다. 그 과정을 지켜본 후지마키는 사부로를 자신의 영지로 받아들인다. 한편 처음에는 권력에 별로 욕심이 없었던 장남 타로는 ‘모든 권력과 호칭을 넘겨받지 못하면 그림자에 불과하다’는 아내 카에데의 부추김에 차츰 히데토라의 권력을 완전히 차지하려고 한다. 그리고 그 사이 히데토라가 타로의 부하를 화살로 쏴 죽이는 일까지 발생하면서 갈등이 점점 고조되는데...
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Michitsune Mishima
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.
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
Nadaaan
Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...
Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost his wife. Due to Tatsuo's sudden illness, Ryuichi had money problems, and he became dependent on the head of the local tekiya and finds himself involved in the tekiya war with the Yakuza.
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge, knocked the referee down. Tagami lived with his wife and five children, but when he returned home, Hara, who had been suspended for a month, wanted to receive Tagami's Subaruta training.
Yoshio Shinjo
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.
Dr. Yoshido
고지라 시리즈에 등장한 괴수들은 물론이고 토호에서 만든 바란 등의 비고지라 계열 단독작품 괴수들도 나오는 올스타전과도 같은 작품이다. 이 작품의 배경은 1999년으로 쇼와 고지라 시리즈 타임라인 상으론 마지막이라고 봐도 무방할 정도의 특징이다. 즉 이때는 메카고지라의 역습의 이후 시점을 다루는 시퀄인 셈. 물론 이미 30년 넘었긴 했지만, 당시 미니어처는 나름대로 나쁘지 않은 수준이다.
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.
Captain Yasuna Kozono - CO 302nd Air Group
1945년 8월 6일과 9일 원자폭탄이 투하되고 8일 소련참전이 이뤄지자 궁지에 몰린 일본은 결국 포츠담 선언을수락한다. 그러나 끝까지 항전할 것을 외치던 일부 군인들은 8월 15일 정오에 발표된 옥음방송(항복방송)을 저지하기 위해 쿠테타를 계획한다. 그렇게 종전까지 24시간, 일본의 가장 긴 하루의 막이 열린다! 오야 소이치의 논픽션을 원작으로 전중파 오카모토 기하치 감독이 제연출을 맡은 토호전기대작 8・15 시리즈 중 제1편.
(2011년 한국영상자료원 - 오카모토 기하치 감독전)
President of Buddabal
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.
Red Bamboo Commander
모스라가 사는 인펀트섬을 점령한 테러리스트들, 일명 '붉은 대나무'는 이곳을 기지로 삼고 주민들을 강제로 일을 시킨다. 바다에는 에비라랍스터가 지키고 있어서 탈출은 불가피하다. 그때 주인공 일행이 동굴에서 고지라를 발견하고 고지라 머리에 칼을 올려놓고 고지라를 깨운다 깨어난 고지라는 테러 리스트들의 기지를 파괴하고 에비라와 한판 뜬다. 그때 모스라가 돌아오고 고지라랑 협공해 에비라를 해치운다.
General
프랑켄슈타인의 세포에서 태어난 인간형 바다 짐승 가이라가 도쿄의 해안을 공격한다. 일본군이 행동을 취할 준비를 하는 동안, 가이라의 가르간투아 형제인 산다는 그의 친척을 지키기 위해 산에서 내려온다. 선과 악의 싸움이 이어지며, 형제들은 분열되고 도시는 폐허가 된다.
Innkeeper
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.
A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents of one of their number.
Yokoyama Hayato
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
Dr. Sakurai
태양계에서 새롭게 발견된 수수께끼의 별 X성을 탐사하던 P-1호는 X성에서 고도의 문명을 지닌 X성인을 만나게 된다. 모든 것을 숫자로 부르는 X성인은 그 곳이 공포의 괴수 ‘몬스터 제로’에게 공격받고 있다고 말하는데, 몬스터 제로의 정체는 다름 아닌 우주대괴수 킹 기도라였다. X성인들은 지구인들에게 킹 기도라와 싸우기 위해 ‘몬스터원=고지라’와 ‘몬스터투=라돈’을 빌려달라고 요청한다. (2014년 18회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)
Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.
Military Advisor
1965년 일본과 미국 합작으로 제작된 괴수영화로 거인 프랑켄슈타인과 괴수 바라곤의 싸움이 주된 내용이다.
Akune
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story.
Kannai's Colleague #1 (segment "Chawan no naka") (uncredited)
고이즈미 야쿠모의 괴기담 중에서 4편의 에피소드를 영상으로 옮긴 옴니버스 영화. 출세를 위해 아내를 버리고 떠났던 무사(‘흑발’), 눈보라 속에서 설녀를 만나 목숨을 건진 청년(‘설녀’), 귀신을 피하기 위해 불경을 몸에 써넣는 맹인 악사(‘귀 없는 호이치’), 찻잔 속에서 기묘한 얼굴을 본 무사(‘찻잔 속’)의 이야기가 오싹한 공포와 함께 펼쳐진다. 환상적인 색채와 표현적인 세트를 이용한 뛰어난 미술과 촬영이 돋보이며, 다케미쓰 도루의 실험적인 음악 또한 탁월하다. 에 이어 두 번째로 칸영화제 심사위원특별상을 수상했다.
Dr. Tatsuno
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".
Could I But Live
Chief Inspector
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
Imaizumi, executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest person in Japan." He lost his wife ten years ago and has been living as a widower ever since. He plotted to marry off his 22-year-old daughter Keiko for political gain, but Keiko is in love with Okuda, who is her father's subordinate. A story full of sadness and joy, depicting a man gripped by different thoughts, as an employee of the company and a father.
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
Editor Maruta
폴리네시아에 거대한 태풍이 오고, 인펀트 섬에 있던 모스라의 알이 이 때문에 바다로 떠내려가고 만다. 모스라의 알은 일본 시즈노우라 앞바다까지 떠밀려온다. 거대한 모스라의 알은 화젯거리가 되고, 신문기자 사카이 이치로는 알을 취재하기 위해 온다. 그러나 해피 공업의 쿠마야마라는 사람이 나타나 자신이 알을 최초 발견자로부터 샀으니 알에 대한 권리는 모두 자기에게 있다며 알을 조사하는 과학자와 기자들을 모두 쫒아낸다. 해피 공업은 모스라의 알을 구경거리로 삼아 돈을 벌 생각이었다. 이들 앞에 소미인이 나타나 알을 제발 돌려달라고 부탁하지만, 쿠마야마와 해피 엔터프라이즈의 사장은 소미인도 잡으려고 든다. 도망친 소미인들은 이번에는 사카이 일행의 앞에 나타나 모스라의 알을 되찾는 것을 도와달라고 부탁한다. 사카이 일행은 소미인들과 함께 해피 공업에 정식으로 찾아가 모스라의 알을 돌려달라고 요청하지만 매몰차게 거절당한다. 실망한 소미인들은 모스라와 함께 인펀트 섬으로 돌아간다. 한편, 간척사업이 진행중인던 땅에서 방사능이 검출되고 이곳을 취재하러 간 사카이 일행은 땅 속에서 고지라가 솟아오르는 것을 목격한다. 킹콩에게 패배해 바다로 떨어졌던 고지라가 다시 깨어난 것이다. 고지라는 요코하마로 향하며 중공업지대를 파괴한다.
Shûe Matsubayashi movie
Captain Hachiro Jinguji
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense.
Itaka Tsuzuka of the Imperial Guards
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.
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family's lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.
While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many duels he fought were intended to bring justice to those who sought to do evil, he is faced with the knowledge that his victories have also caused suffering amont the family members of his victims-leading him to question his life's philosophy.
This superb film is the final chapter in this part of Shingo's story. A fitting tribute to his quest to be the supreme swordsman.
Noda
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but became star. First film in popular "Number 1" Series.
General Masami Shinzo (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.
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...
Kamiya, National Shoes Publicity Director
신발 제조 회사의 중역인 곤도는 회사의 주도권을 잡기 위해 자신의 전 재산을 회사에 투자한 상태다. 어느 날 그는 자신의 아들이 납치됐으며 범인이 엄청난 몸값을 요구하고 있다는 통보를 받고 회사냐 아들이냐 하는 선택의 기로에 서게 된다. 하지만 정작 납치된 것은 그의 아들이 아니라 그의 운전사의 아들이란 사실이 밝혀지면서 곤도는 또 다른 고민에 빠지게 되는데...
Kamo Serizawa
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsenhumi out of admiration for its leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
Commander
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.
아코낭인 사건 이라고도 하는 이 사건은 도쿠가와 막부의 제 5대 쇼군 도쿠가와 쓰나요시가 집권하고 있던 1701년 에도성에서 일어났다. 칙사 접대를 담당한 아코성의 성주 아사노 다쿠미노카미가 의전 담당인 기라 고즈케노스케를 칼로 쳤으나 미처 죽이지 못하였지만, 그날로 할복을 하고, 가옥과 성이 몰수된다. 도쿠가와 막부의 조치에 불만을 지닌 아코성 가신인 오이시 구라노스케 이하 낭인 46, 총 47명이 그 다음해 12월에 기라의 저택을 급습하여 그를 죽인 후, 그 목을 아사노가 묻혀있는 센가쿠지(泉岳寺)로 들고가 복수를 완성하고, 1703년 3월 도쿠가와 막부의 결정에 따라 46명 할복했던 실제 사건을 그린 영화이다.
Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort.
A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is offering to repay Koroku’s family debts in exchange for marriage, but Koroku is in love with his landlord’s daughter, Teruko. Things are further complicated when the wicked Tsugawa takes interest in both women, for his own marriage.
General Masami Shinzo
세계적인 제약회사의 회장인 다코는 연구원인 사쿠라이 오사무와 후루에 긴자부로를 파로 섬으로 보낸다. 파로 섬에서만 자라는 소마 열매는 강력한 마취 성분을 갖고 있으며 중독성이 없는데, 그는 이 열매로 신약을 개발하려 한다. 또한 다코 회장은 연구원들에게 킹콩의 존재 여부 또한 알아올 것을 부탁한다.파로 섬에 도착한 사쿠라이와 후루에는 킹콩을 발견하고, 소마 열매로 킹콩을 마취시켜 일본으로 데려온다. 한편 7년 전 빙하에 갇혔던 고질라가 깨어나고 바다를 건너 일본에 출몰한다. 일본으로 끌려온 킹콩도 탈출하는데 성공하여 마침내 두 괴물이 격돌하게 되는데...
Mr. Kuroda
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
Division Commander
Comedy movie
Mitamura
Raizô Sonoda
In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after all the orbiting ships are drawn into the planetoid. A later mission is sent to observe and the crew barely leaves before suffering the same fate. However Astronaut Tatsuo Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. The Earth's scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
1962 Japanese movie
Ichiro
Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda
Kanzaburo Itami
Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two women, one of them a young widow with a son. They like him and think that he is an ordinary office worker. One day, Tobe accidentally discovers pictures of an acquaintance, Kanzaburo, with a woman and sets out to blackmail him. He soon finds out that Kanzaburo died in a train accident but things may not be what they seem
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
Shigemune
젊은 양아치 신이치와 켄지는 경마장에서 손님 돈을 챙기고 도주한다. 그 도중 시게무네반 보스의 애인 유미와 우연히 알게 된다. 유미의 소개로 두 사람은 당장 그날 밤 예정된 권총 밀매 거래를 끝내고 구매자인 카지카와조에게서 권총을 강탈하는 데 쓴다. 한편, 권총 밀매인인 쿠로도 카지카와조에게서 권총을 되찾으려고 획책하고 있는데...
을 제작한 오카모토 기하치의 전설적인 액션영화 '암흑가'시리즈중 하나. 집을 비운 사이 아버지가 살해된 사건을 계기로 알래스카에서 돌아온 한 남자가 갱단의 싸움에 휘말리며 범인 찾기에 나서는데... (2011년 한국영상자료원 - 오카모토 기하치 감독전)
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
Japanese comedy film.
Teikabo Tsutsumi
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.
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
Boss Tsukamoto
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.
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.
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and the beautiful lady in tragic love! A grand visual epic told with mesmerizing extravagance!
Captain
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.
1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo
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.
Ootomo's Kurohiko
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.
Shichibe Kanemaki
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge his father-in-law's death and retrieve the family heirloom.
A samurai warrior attempts to stop Kublai Khan's Mongol hordes from overrunning Japan in the 13th century.
Film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Heisuke
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less samurai who founded a school for underprivileged children in a poor neighborhood. Into the mix comes a young woman running away from a forced marriage disguised as a teenage boy and becomes a student of the beloved Sensei, while he staves off the advances of a skilled pickpocket and prepares for a bloody showdown against a direct retainer of the shogun!
An entertainment movie featuring familiar faces of Toyama no Kin-san, Nezumi Kozo, Yaji Kita, and others who traveled around the Tokaido. Written and directed by Kunio Watanabe. A group of samurai rushed into the Sakura Opera Troupe in the mountain village, chasing a young woman named Chiyohime who was promoting dancing around Edo Asakusa area. Suri Nao and Kinshiro Toyama was there and saved her. Meanwhile, the samurai asked the acquaintance Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi to find her. Jirokichi visited Kinshiro 's house, and found her there…
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa.
Chief of security
Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure.
A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.
The beautiful daughter of a merchant with a penchant for danger proves to be too much to handle for her worried father. Disguising herself as a man and changing her name, she heads for the capital...
Higaki
Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done, evil forces lurk in Edo and Gentaro must use his phenomenal sword skills to overcome the evil and find the love of his life. Another must have for fans of the great Otomo Ryutaro. And don't let the "silly" English title fool you, this is a great movie!
지구 정복을 노리는 제5혹성인 미스테리안과 지구 방위군의 일대 공방전을 그린 SF 초대형작. 괴수물에 이어 “초과학 전쟁”이라고 하는 장르를 확립시킨 기념비적인 작품이다. 의심스러운 산불, 갑작스런 지반침하, 거대 로봇의 출현이 차례차례로 일어나는 괴사건은 우주인 미스테리안의 행위였다. 그들은 후지산 산기슭에 은밀히 건설한 돔 기지에서 자신들과의 인류 공존을 위해서라며 주위 3km 내 지방의 영토를 줄 것과 6명의 지구인 여성과의 자기들 인류와의 결혼의 요구해온다. 그러나 압도적인 과학과 군사력을 가진 미스테리안의 요구는 서서히 그 규모가 커지고 마침내 지구의 패권을 건 장렬한 전투가 시작된다.
Nizô
Classic kaidan ghost story from the Edo period
Vice-Admiral Tōgō
Meiji Tenno portrayed the ramp up to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also showed the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan who sent their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and it's combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
Japanese film about motorcycle racing.
Japanese film.
Kunisada Chuji
Japanese film.
Japanese film.
In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.
The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.
Ninja film by Tai Kato
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.
A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
Kogenta
12세기 에도 시대, 곳곳에서 반란이 일어나고 혼란과 공포가 교토를 뒤덮는다. 교토의 산조성 또한 공격을 당하고, 왕족인 키사는 젊은 사무라이 모리토에게 구출된다. 이때의 인연을 시작으로 모리토는 그녀를 사랑하게 되지만 키사는 벌써 모리토 보다 계급이 높은 사무라이 남편이 있는 몸이다. 모리토는 충성스러운 사무라이지만 그녀를 향한 사랑 때문에 결국 이성을 잃게 되고 키사의 고모까지 인질로 잡으면서 키사를 자기 것으로 만들려고 한다. 일본에서 처음으로 이스트만 컬러를 사용한 작품으로, 화려한 색감과 의상으로 한 순간도 눈을 떼지 못하게 만든다. 기쿠치 칸의 역사극을 영화화했으며, 1954년 칸 영화제 그랑프리를 수상했다.
The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion.
Masao
Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
Fuwa Kazuemon
A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
The rise of the famed gambler.
Tomoyuki Inada
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
Kusuda
1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.
Mori no Ishimatsu
Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.
Kensaku - Tazaki
Iori
A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in service to her. They are in search of Tomonojo, who has killed the man who was Okuni’s husband and Gohei’s master, and they cannot return to their lord’s home until they have fulfilled their duty of hunting down and killing Tomonojo.
Hamada
Japanese drama film.
Staff Major
War film by Kon Ichikawa
A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there.
___________
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturbed former kamikaze pilot. A U.S. secret agent, posing as a reporter, is dispatched to Tokyo to put a stop to these nefarious activities.
Yoshioka
A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around them.
Masayoshi Imanishi
One Sunday morning, Toshio Esaki, a young dentist, wakes up in his clinic. It seems that he was drunk and spent the night in the clinic instead of going home. When he goes into the laboratory to get a drink of water, he finds a woman wearing a green striped Western-style dress lying there.
Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part crime drama, part social study. Definitely not an undiscovered masterpiece, but still a must for Ichikawa buffs.
Itakura
Sanpei Aisaka
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
A joint project by Sojiro Motoki and Tomoyuki Tanaka, co-dramatizing the original story by Shu Sekikawa with Senkichi Taniguchi and Kenro Matsuura. The fur of a stray dog, the double-barreled gun tied to the backpack, the beard covered with tanned leather, and the bottom of the snow-burnt shining eyes, for the first time in thirteen years, these reached out to the bottom of society. Genji Iwaki dreamed of reuniting with his first love, Tsukie Shiina, with a huge amount of gold dust. To hand over half of the gold dust, he appeared in the memorable N city from the mountains of Teshio with the hope of seeing his late colleague's son, Ichiro Akutsu...
A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money — falling in love is forbidden.
