Ishirō Honda

Stray Dog

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

Release Date1949-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Charactersd Fleeing Villain (uncredited)

Vote Count330

Rebirth of Mothra

A new Mothra takes to the air and battles against Desghidorah to save all of humanity.

Release Date1996-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobLyricist

Charactersd Man in photo at the Goto's house (uncredited)

Vote Count47

The Discarnates

Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a 'Rakugo' show, where a friendly man in the audience invites him home. Harada is puzzled at the strong resemblance of this man and his wife to his own parents, who were killed nearly 30 years ago when he was twelve.

Release Date1988-09-15

Charactersd Restaurant Owner

Vote Count12

Samurai Kids

A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai warrior who is only six inches tall.

Release Date1993-07-17

Charactersd Grandfather

Vote Count1

A. K.

An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa.

Release Date1985-05-20

Charactersd Self

Vote Count36

Toho Unused Special Effects Complete Collection

A collection of deleted scenes and bloopers from the library of Toho Studios films, including several films from the famous Godzilla franchise.

Release Date1986-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Making of 'Dreams'

This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with cast and crew.

Release Date1990-11-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Godzilla Singular Point

Brought together by a mysterious song, a grad student and an engineer lead the fight against an unimaginable force that may spell doom for the world.

Release Date2021-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Episode Count13

Vote Count152

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.

Release Date2019-05-29

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count6452

Godzilla

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

Release Date2014-05-14

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count9475

Shin Godzilla

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Release Date2016-07-29

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count1461

Return of Ultraman

In a fight between two giant monsters named Takkong and Zazahn, young race car driver Hideki Go is killed while trying to rescue a little boy and a dog from the falling rubble. His valiant sacrifice is noted by everyone, even his friends and the new defense force MAT, but an unseen being also takes notice. Looking over Go is the "New Ultraman", who is so touched by Go's actions that he decides to combine his life force with that of Hideki, thus bringing him back to life. Hideki Go then joins the MAT and fights alongside them and Ultraman against monsters and alien invaders.

Release Date1971-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count16

Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

Release Date1985-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1686

King Kong vs. Godzilla

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.

Release Date1963-06-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count263

Godzilla

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

Release Date1954-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1049

King Kong vs. Godzilla

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.

Release Date1962-08-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count323

All Monsters Attack

Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolboy alone. Constantly teased by a bully nicknamed Gabara, his only friends are toy consultant Shinpei and fellow classmate Sachiko. Ichiro turns to escapist dreams of Monster Island where he befriends the equally bullied Minilla.

Release Date1969-12-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count198

Godzilla: The Planet Eater

With no means for defeating Godzilla Earth, mankind watches as King Ghidorah, clad in a golden light, descends on the planet. The heavens and earth shake once again as the war moves to a higher dimension.

Release Date2018-11-09

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count379

Dreams

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Release Date1990-05-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count517

Rodan

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.

Release Date1956-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count177

Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle

Humanity's desperate battle to reclaim the Earth from Godzilla continues. The key to defeating the King of the Monsters may be Mechagodzilla, a robotic weapon thought to have been lost nearly 20,000 years ago.

Release Date2018-05-18

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count381

Madadayo

In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.

Release Date1993-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count126

The Mysterians

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.

Release Date1957-12-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count55

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters

A desperate group of refugees attempts to recolonize Earth 20,000 years after Godzilla took over. But one young man wants revenge above all else.

Release Date2017-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count528

Terror of Mechagodzilla

A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned with the Black Hole Aliens, Katsura's life becomes entwined with the resurrected machine.

Release Date1975-03-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count228

Invasion of Astro-Monster

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for cancer. As Glenn investigates, he develops a romance with Miss Namikawa and uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.

Release Date1965-12-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count233

Atragon

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.

Release Date1963-12-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count53

Mothra

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.

Release Date1961-07-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count171

Destroy All Monsters

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.

Release Date1968-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count262

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.

Release Date1964-04-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count313

Frankenstein Conquers the World

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.

Release Date1965-08-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count67

King Kong Escapes

An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". 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 to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.

Release Date1967-07-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count106

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

Release Date1964-12-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count268

Battle in Outer Space

In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.

Release Date1959-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count44

Matango

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew. Soon they discover something unfriendly there...

Release Date1963-08-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count99

Rhapsody in August

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity about the 1945 bombing stirs buried memories and moral questions. When an American nephew from Hawaii visits, the family confronts grief, guilt, and the possibility of reconciliation across generations.

Release Date1991-05-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count144

Space Amoeba

When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time. Soon, the parasitic life forms latch onto three indigenous critters -- a squid, a crab and a snapping turtle -- and transform them into colossal mutant monsters.

Release Date1970-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count51

Varan the Unbelievable

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.

Release Date1962-12-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count31

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.

Release Date1956-04-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count268

The Human Vapor

A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's career, killing those who interfere. Now Tokyo's most wanted criminal, can authorities stop him?

Release Date1960-12-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Gorath

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.

Release Date1962-03-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count24

Humanity and Paper Balloons

In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy pawnbroker, who is set to be married.

Release Date1937-08-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count45

The Blue Pearl

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.

Release Date1951-08-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Story of Iron Arm Inao

An Ishiro Honda film.

Release Date1959-03-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Farewell Rabaul

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.

Release Date1954-02-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Young Tree

A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

Release Date1956-01-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Zone Fighter

Zone Fighter, known in Japan as Ryūsei Ningen Zone, is a tokusatsu science fiction superhero television series. Produced by Toho Company Ltd., the show aired on Nippon Television from April 2 to September 24, 1973, with a total of 26 episodes, it was cancelled due to the oil crisis of 1973. This was Toho's answer to not only the popular Ultra Series, but the Henshin Hero phenomenon started by shows like Kamen Rider and Android Kikaider. The previous year, Toho had just made their successful first superhero show, Rainbowman. The series was also notable for its guest appearance by Toho's own Godzilla, as well as two other Toho monsters, King Ghidorah and Gigan. Supplementary materials published by Toho have confirmed Zone Fighter to be part of the Showa-era Godzilla series, taking place in between Godzilla vs. Megalon and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.

Release Date1973-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count3

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Release Date1957-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars...

Release Date1935-03-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count8

Beast Man Snow Man

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

Release Date1955-08-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

People of Tokyo, Goodbye

Release Date1956-06-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

These Foolish Times

Release Date1947-10-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Subterranean Heat

Release Date1938-02-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Battle Troop

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their torpedo techniques. Mikami is posted as a staff officer at a base on an island in the Pacific. Kawakami and Murakami later joins him as the base squardron is reinforced. The enemy task force approaches the island and all three of them attack the fleet, killing themselves in the process.

Release Date1944-12-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Echo Mountain

An Ishiro Honda film.

Release Date1959-01-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Dogora

A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

Release Date1964-08-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count42

Song for a Bride

An Ishiro Honda film.

Release Date1958-02-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Avalanche

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.

Release Date1937-07-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count8

Good Luck to These Two

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

Release Date1957-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Beautiful Hawk

One of three titles released the same year, with the same title based on the same story. This is the P.C.L. (Toho) Version

Release Date1937-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers

An Ishiro Honda film.

Release Date1959-09-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister

An Ishiro Honda film.

Release Date1957-08-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Skin of the South

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course.

Release Date1952-02-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Lovetide

An Ishiro Honda film.

Release Date1955-01-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

Release Date1957-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tokyo 1960

A Filipino re-edit of the original Godzilla. Appears to have been edited in a similar fashion to the American King of the Monsters!, with the use of Filipino actors. No footage of this version has ever surfaced.

Release Date1957-12-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Come Marry Me

Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro.

Release Date1966-11-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Colonel Kato's Falcon Squadron

A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the Pacific War. The film has scenes featuring Ki-43 fighters escorting Ki-21 bombers to attack Rangoon, where they are attacked by P-40 Warhawk and Brewster Buffalo fighters.

Release Date1944-03-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count3

A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye

An Ishiro Honda film.

Release Date1957-07-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Escape from Prison

Release Date1950-01-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Elegy

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his disciple Uchiyama and his best friend prosecutor Daisuke Toki accused his music as a sesame of pause-only technique, not a truly heart-hungry art.

Release Date1951-02-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Mother and Son

An Ishiro Honda film.

Release Date1955-06-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Man in Red

Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza running a dope ring. Battling gangsters all the way, Takashi searches for his former girlfriend, now a drug addict.

Release Date1961-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Eagle of the Pacific

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

Release Date1953-10-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Varan

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 decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.

Release Date1958-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count30

Escape at Dawn

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love with a prostitute named Harumi, she convinces him to desert the army and live with her.

Release Date1950-01-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count3

Adolescence Part II

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

Release Date1953-07-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a skiers shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film "Jūjin Yuki Otoko" (1955) with added American-made footage, narration, and music.

Release Date1957-05-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

The Man Who Came to Port

An Ishiro Honda film.

Release Date1952-11-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Rebirth of Mothra II

The fairies from Infant Island discover a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.

Release Date1997-12-13

DepartmentWriting

JobLyricist

Vote Count40

Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean

Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a unique assemblage exclusive to the Francophone market. Released by Les Films du Verseau.

Release Date1957-03-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count17

Latitude Zero

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 McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.

Release Date1969-07-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count26

Enoken’s Ten Millions

Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song.

Release Date1936-07-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Godzilla

A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), plus WWII newsreel footage and clips from other science fiction films. 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 musicians Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio, and Vince Tempera (under the pseudonym Magnetic System).

Release Date1977-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count52

Godzilla vs. Mothra

Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.

Release Date1992-12-12

DepartmentWriting

JobLyricist

Vote Count208

The War of the Gargantuas

Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira's Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.

Release Date1966-07-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count101

Mirrorman

A theatrical release of the 1st episode of Mirrorman as part of the 1972 Spring Toho Champion Festival.

Release Date1972-03-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Godzilla Fantasia

Akira Ifukube has arranged music from his fantastic films into a three-movement symphony, presented here with scenes from the films the music was originally written for. The second half features Makoto Inoue's synthesizer arrangements of Ifukube's music. In this portion, all the music is by Ifukube, but it shows scenes from films Ifukube did not work on. Showcases footage from various monster and science fiction films from Ishiro Honda as well as scenes from Senkichi Taniguchi's Adventure of Kigan Castle.

Release Date1984-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

The H-Man

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works.

Release Date1958-06-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count37

Night School

Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he finds a letter on his desk, left by Ryohei, a day school student who has lost his pencil case and asks his night-school counterpart to return it…

Release Date1956-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Rodan! The Flying Monster!

A mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wreaking havoc - at supersonic speeds.

Release Date1957-11-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Iseshima

An Ishiro Honda short film.

Release Date1950-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Moses vs. Godzilla

Made by a team of animators at Dreamworks while they were working on The Prince of Egypt, this faux trailer uses high tech animation to parody The Ten Commandments and The Clash Of The Titans. The film was made to be played at the wrap party for The Prince of Egypt, but went on to play at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival in 2001. Subsequently the film has become an obscure oddity amongst Godzilla fans.

Release Date2001-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count1

A Story of a Co-op

An Ishiro Honda short film.

Release Date1949-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

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Turning Point

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Release Date1994-06-18

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Searching For Kurosawa

Searching for Kurosawa chronicles Kawamura Mitsuhiko’s journey from the set of Kurosawa’s Ran in 1985 to its final release three decades later. Now, with the rediscovered clips and Mitsuhiko’s own recollections, the film pieces together an intimate portrait of cinema’s “Emperor,” revealing how a young cinephile’s passion helped preserve invaluable fragments of film history. In the course of unearthing lost footage, Kawamura’s life takes an ironic course; he loved movies so much that his life became a movie.