Haruya Katō
Nascimento : 1928-06-22, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
H.S. Principal
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
7 de agosto de 1942. O Exército dos EUA envia uma grande frota naval para atacar Guadalcanal. Isso marcou o início da contraofensiva do Exército dos EUA no Pacífico. Guadalcanal teve que ser defendida até a morte! Após seis meses de batalha mortal, as munições e os suprimentos da guarnição japonesa foram exauridos. Sofrendo de fome, feridas, malária e disenteria amebiana, eles foram finalmente derrotados e a contraofensiva dos militares dos EUA que conquista Guadalcanal espalha-se de ilha em ilha como uma avalanche. Bougainville, o arquipélago de Bismarck, Nova Guiné, Makin, Tarawa e finalmente, a 7 de julho de 1944, os defensores de Saipan escolheram o caminho dos "gyokusai". (Gyokusai = morte honrosa em vez de rendição, seja lutando contra a morte ou suicídio).
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".
Kameyoshi
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
TV Director
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Years later a wild boy is discovered wandering the streets of the city alone, born of the immortal heart.
Journalist
Uma profetisa de Vênus anuncia desastres catastróficos! Godzilla, Mothra e Rodan reaparecem no Japão, causando devastação! Um meteoro gigante colide nas montanhas e o dragão espacial cuspidor de fogo de três cabeças Rei Ghidorah emerge! Conforme as profecias da venusiana se tornam realidade, assassinos de um pequeno reino asiático a caçam, enquanto os monstros da Terra devem decidir se irão resolver suas diferenças mesquinhas e unir forças contra o inimigo extraterrestre!
Sabu, small henchman
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
Obayashi's assistant
Os dois maiores monstros de todos os tempos batalham em uma clássica aventura emocionante. Quando uma dissimulada empresa farmacêutica vai até uma remota ilha tropical para roubar King Kong para fins publicitários, eles recebem mais do que esperavam quando o gigantesco macaco ataca uma desavisada aldeia e um enorme polvo. Enquanto isso, muito abaixo do mar, a tripulação de um submarino desencadeia terror reptiliano quando derretem um bloco de gelo e liberam o feroz Godzilla de seu covil gelado. Quando os dois destrutivos monstros aparecem em Tóquio, é uma luta que tem o futuro da humanidade na balança.
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
Ship Survivor
As shobijin (termo japonês para "belas pequeninas", também são conheçidas como fadas gêmeas) são raptadas de sua ilha por um inescrupuloso bandido, que vê nelas suas chances de enriquecer. Enquanto isso surge à larva de MOTHRA que segue para o Japão para tentar resgatar as duas Subujins. Na procura pelas pequeninas Mothra devasta o Japão, causando destruição e pânico. Primeira aparição da mariposa gigante "Mothra", que algum tempo depois, teve participações (De grande importância) em varios outros filmes, especialmente os de Godzilla.
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
Follow-up to Desperado Outpost (1959) sees Japanese soldiers seeking the flag of a defeated regiment in China.
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join with a band of rogues living in the forest in robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, always with an eye toward avenging himself on Magistrate Matsui.
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.
Hiker A
An Ishiro Honda film.
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.
Koichiro Takayama
When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.
Mattchan - Fisherman
Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
Hideo Owaki
Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.
The fourth entry in the Company President Series
Doomed Villager
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women, claiming to be pacifists. Mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.
Baseado no romance teatral homônimo de Yutaka Mafune
Seitaro
Hamako has just started working for her personal hero, Madame Yuki. Her romanticized view of the Madame is broken immediately, though, as she is introduced with a ever-growing list of the Madame’s personal problems.