Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he’s a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.

This film features a large extended family (and associates) even more extensive than the one portrayed by Ozu in “End of Summer”. The central character is Setsuko Hara — a…

Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is treated by a hypnotist and left under the spell. Thereafter she cannot but sing and dance whenever she hears…

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…

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…

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 massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain…

King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads…

A typhoon washes ashore a giant egg. Before it can be studied, the local villagers claim the egg and sell it to greedy entrepreneurs. The Shobijin soon arrive to plead…

Within the sixth Godzilla film, mysterious aliens from the Planet X ask earth’s individuals to assist them save their world from the dreaded Ghidorah (aka “Monster Zero”) by letting them…

After being captured in a storm in the south shores, many teens and burglar arrive on a island in which natives are stung by a terrorist association. They also find…

A 400-foot (122-meter) fire-breathing dinosaur, woke up from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by hydrogen-bomb testing, assaults Tokyo.

Japan is thrown into a panic after many ships burst and are staggered close to Odo Island. A trip to the island caused by paleontologist Professor Kyohei Yemani shortly discover…

The Earth is headed for catastrophe and as soon as an archeological study group visits Infant Island to learn whythey find two young girls who show the Earth is fighting…

Humanity last rids themselves of Godzilla, in-prisoning him in an icy tomb on the South Pole. Years later all is peaceable till numerous monsters emerge to put waste to Earth’s…