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Yojimbo
is a 1961 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was one of the producers. The film stars Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Daisuke Katō, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Atsushi Watanabe. In the film, a rōnin arrives in a small town where competing crime lords fight for supremacy. The two bosses each try to hire the newcomer as a bodyguard.
Godzilla
1954 film directed by Ishirō Honda
Kagemusha
is a 1980 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class petty thief who is taught to impersonate the dying daimyō Takeda Shingen to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. Kagemusha is the Japanese term for a political decoy, literally meaning "shadow warrior". The film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.
High and Low
1963 film by Akira Kurosawa
Red Beard
1965 film by Akira Kurosawa
King Kong vs. Godzilla
1962 film directed by Ishirō Honda
Sanjuro
is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed, co-written and edited by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo.
The Bad Sleep Well
1960 film by Akira Kurosawa
Godzilla Raids Again
1955 Japanese film directed by Motoyoshi Oda
Invasion of Astro-Monster
1965 film by Ishirō Honda
Mothra vs. Godzilla
1964 film directed by Ishirō Honda
The Return of Godzilla
1984 Japanese action/adventure film by Kōji Yakusho, Koji Hashimoto
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991 Japanese Sci-Fi/Adventure film by Kazuki Ōmori
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1964 Japanese science fiction dramatic horror film by Ishirō Honda
Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989 Japanese science fiction action film by Kazuki Ómori
King Kong Escapes
1967 monster (kaiju) film
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
1974 film by Jun Fukuda
Destroy All Monsters
1968 Japanese Horror/Sci-Fi film directed by Ishirō Honda
Godzilla vs. Mothra
1992 film by Takao Okawara
Godzilla vs. Gigan
1972 film by Jun Fukuda
Son of Godzilla
1967 film by Jun Fukuda
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
1971 film by Yoshimitsu Banno
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
1966 film by Jun Fukuda
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
1993 film by Takao Okawara
All Monsters Attack
1969 Japanese sci-fi/action film by Ishirō Honda
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
1995 film by Takao Okawara
Mothra
1961 Japanese adventure/sci-fi film directed by Ishirō Honda
Godzilla vs. Megalon
1973 Japanese Fantasy/Sci-Fi film by Jun Fukuda
Rodan
1956 film by Ishirō Honda
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
1994 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed by Kenshō Yamashita
Frankenstein Conquers the World
1965 film by Ishirō Honda
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
1956 film directed by Terry O. Morse and Ishirō Honda
The War of the Gargantuas
1966 film by Ishirō Honda
Rickshaw Man
1958 film by Hiroshi Inagaki
Battle in Outer Space
1959 Japanese sci-fi/action film by Ishirō Honda
Varan the Unbelievable
1958 film by Ishirō Honda
The Mysterians
1957 film by Ishirō Honda
Samurai Rebellion
1967 film by Masaki Kobayashi
Atragon
is a 1963 Japanese epic science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho, it is based on The Undersea Warship: A Fantastic Tale of Island Adventure by Shunrō Oshikawa and The Undersea Kingdom by Shigeru Komatsuzaki. The film stars Jun Tazaki, Tadao Takashima, Yōko Fujiyama, Yū Fujiki, and Ken Uehara.
Japan's Longest Day
1967 film by Kihachi Okamoto
The H-Man
1958 film by Ishirō Honda
Half Human
1955 film by Ishirō Honda
Space Amoeba
1970 film by Ishirō Honda
Matango
is a 1963 Japanese horror film directed by Ishirō Honda. The film stars Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno and Kenji Sahara. Partially based on William Hope Hodgson's short story "The Voice in the Night", it centers on a group of castaways on an island who are unwittingly altered by a local species of mutagenic mushrooms.
Gorath
is a 1962 Japanese epic science fiction disaster film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Based on an idea by Jojiro Okami, the film is about mankind's efforts to move Earth out of its orbit to prevent it from colliding with a runaway white dwarf star. The film was extensively edited for its American release.
Tidal Wave
1973 film by Shirō Moritani
The Birth of Japan
1959 film by Hiroshi Inagaki
Dogora
is a 1964 Japanese kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Produced and distributed by Toho Studios, the film stars Yosuke Natsuki, Nobuo Nakamura, Hiroshi Koizumi, and Akiko Wakabayashi, along with American actor Robert Dunham. The film tells the story of a huge jellyfish-like carbon-eating creature from space that attacks Japan.
The Legend of the White Serpent
1956 Japanese film directed by Shirō Toyoda
The Human Vapor
1960 film by Ishirō Honda
Escape at Dawn
1950 film by Senkichi Taniguchi
Battle of the Japan Sea
1969 film by Seiji Maruyama
Untamed
1957 film by Mikio Naruse
Samurai Assassin
1964 film by Kihachi Okamoto
Sword for Hire
1952 Japanese film by Hiroshi Inagaki
The Lost World of Sinbad
1963 film by Senkichi Taniguchi
Snow Trail
1947 film by Senkichi Taniguchi
Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki
1962 film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki
Life of an Expert Swordsman
1959 film by Hiroshi Inagaki
Kill!
is a 1968 Japanese comedy-chambara film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The film had a screenplay written by Akira Murao and Okamoto, and is based on the story Torideyama no jushichinichi () in Yamamoto Shugoro zenshu (1964) by Shūgorō Yamamoto.