Search results for "Ishirō Honda"
Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August

Rhapsody in August
IMDb: 7.2
98

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…

Genre: Drama
Ran

Ran

Ran
IMDb: 8.2
160

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.

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Kagemusha

Kagemusha

Kagemusha
IMDb: 7.9
180

Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Terror of Mechagodzilla

Terror of Mechagodzilla

Terror of Mechagodzilla
IMDb: 6.1
83

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…

Space Amoeba

Space Amoeba

Space Amoeba
IMDb: 5.4
84

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…

Latitude Zero

Latitude Zero

Latitude Zero
IMDb: 5.9
105

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…

All Monsters Attack

All Monsters Attack

All Monsters Attack
IMDb: 3.9
70

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…

Destroy All Monsters

Destroy All Monsters

Destroy All Monsters
IMDb: 6.4
89

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…

King Kong Escapes

King Kong Escapes

King Kong Escapes
IMDb: 5.5
104

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…

The War of the Gargantuas

The War of the Gargantuas

The War of the Gargantuas
IMDb: 6.1
88

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,…

Invasion of Astro-Monster

Invasion of Astro-Monster

Invasion of Astro-Monster
IMDb: 6.2
96

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…

Frankenstein Conquers the World

Frankenstein Conquers the World

Frankenstein Conquers the World
IMDb: 5.5
90

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…

Dogora

Dogora

Dogora
IMDb: 5.6
83

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

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
IMDb: 6.5
92

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

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Mothra vs. Godzilla

Mothra vs. Godzilla
IMDb: 6.5
89

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…

Matango

Matango

Matango
IMDb: 6.4
89

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…

Atragon

Atragon

Atragon
IMDb: 5.8
96

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…

Varan the Unbelievable

Varan the Unbelievable

Varan the Unbelievable
IMDb: 4.4
70

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…

King Kong vs. Godzilla

King Kong vs. Godzilla

King Kong vs. Godzilla
IMDb: 5.7
96

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…

Mothra

Mothra

Mothra
IMDb: 6.6
101

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…

The Human Vapor

The Human Vapor

The Human Vapor
IMDb: 6.4
92

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…

Battle in Outer Space

Battle in Outer Space

Battle in Outer Space
IMDb: 5.6
90

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…

The H-Man

The H-Man

The H-Man
IMDb: 6
87

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.

The Mysterians

The Mysterians

The Mysterians
IMDb: 6.1
89

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…

Rodan

Rodan

Rodan
IMDb: 6.2
72

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…

Godzilla

Godzilla

Godzilla
IMDb: 7.6
96

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…

The Eagle of the Pacific

The Eagle of the Pacific

The Eagle of the Pacific
IMDb: 6.8
119

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…

Genre: Drama, War
Stray Dog

Stray Dog

Stray Dog
IMDb: 7.8
122

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…

Battle Troop

Battle Troop

Battle Troop
IMDb: 5.4
95

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…

Genre: War
Humanity and Paper Balloons

Humanity and Paper Balloons

Humanity and Paper Balloons
IMDb: 7.6
86

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…

Genre: Drama, History