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Akira Takarada (April 29, 1934–March 14, 2022) was a Japanese film actor, best known for his roles in the Godzilla film series.
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11 July 2015
An independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world's greatest monster, Godzilla.
14 May 2014
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.
03 May 1956
Outspoken student Noriko stands up to bullies and befriends pitcher Mitsuo. As their bond deepens, she impulsively declares she wants to marry him—then reconsiders, realizing both still have growing to do before love can truly begin.
22 January 2010
A look into the production of the nineteenth Godzilla film. Includes filmmaker and actor interviews with behind the scenes footage of the film's visual effects.
30 June 2018
Miyuki works as an OL. Her younger sibling died from a car accident in 1989. Due to her sibling's death, her mother became ill and her father drank constantly until he died.
02 July 1983
Emiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira Kuniyoshi (Shinji Yamashita), the son of the president of a hotel chain.
03 November 1954
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr.
27 October 1957
About schoolgirls in a rural town, and a love letter which has the entire community in an uproar.
14 August 1955
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
16 January 1999
In the late 1950s, Uragami Ryuji leaves his hometown with big ambitions. Working at a factory by day and attending night school, he witnesses a yakuza clash where a fearless man stands his ground against several opponents.
19 August 1958
At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals.
07 July 1954
Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the nephew of a powerful businessman.
29 January 1958
Minako, a runaway from Osaka chasing her dream of becoming a singer, struggles through poverty, failed jobs, and exploitation in Tokyo.
31 August 1966
A conman team swindles through jewel scams, marriage fraud, and fake school admissions. Their schemes bring quick riches but collapse before escape, landing them in prison—while a former mark prospers by stealing their tricks.
09 February 1985
Three young girls coming of age in a Catholic boarding school bond over the strict rules and vow to support each other.
04 December 2004
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities.
26 December 1959
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing.
29 April 1958
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while.
12 December 1992
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.
15 April 1958
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed.
19 December 1965
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".
21 May 1960
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy.
15 September 1962
Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We follow her ups and downs on the way to stardom as she falls in love with two men, a petty thief and a music writer and teacher, and makes her way in the industry alongside The Peanuts and The Crazy Cats.
28 February 1960
Musical about the "Blue Star," a struggling jazz band led by pianist Takarada and trumpet player Takashima and their love interests.
01 October 1966
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother.
19 September 2015
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity business.
26 April 1960
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.
06 November 2014
Godzilla Battle Royale is a low-budget Godzilla fan film, directed and written by Billy DuBose. It was theatrically screened in the Pickwick Theater.
14 July 1962
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru.
26 July 1969
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.
28 January 1962
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
17 December 1966
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers.
29 January 1957
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
29 April 1964
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs.
13 September 2003
29-year-old Satonaka Takashi (Kudo Kankuro) is a freelancer. He falls in love at first sight with Satoru Nobunaga (Shiho Takano), who was a nurse at his previous hospitalization.
01 January 1967
College student Yuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku.
01 January 1999
Using his strong sense of justice, Uragami Ryuji gains influence at both the factory and school. Though a dispute with the Nio-kai yakuza is once settled, their renewed provocation leads Ryuji and his followers to quit the factory and confront the Nio-kai directly.
03 November 2000
A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group.
27 September 1997
Vain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate the brutal murder she witnessed.
01 November 1969
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesaburo and Kakunosuke, under the name of Koemon, a retired peasant.
02 June 1990
Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it.
13 July 1957
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.
02 June 2007
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.
02 September 1963
Comedy about a Japanese-American professor, a nuclear scientist, who returns to Japan to search for a typically subservient Japanese wife.
15 January 1963
An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics company.
21 January 1958
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess.
27 April 1956
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'.
09 March 2019
Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work.
12 August 1958
Eri stars as a jazz-crazy waitress pursuing a singing career.
01 December 1957
Three high school girls travel to Osaka to visit a friend and end up on a lively journey through Kyoto, Beppu, and Aso.
14 November 1992
As an engaged couple, Shinichi Kida and Mari Egawa spend a romantic night on a premarital trip to the southern island, but Shinichi suddenly disappears the next morning.
