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 ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Akira Takarada, Anne Suzuki, Kayoko Kishimoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Keiko Matsuzaka, Tohru Emori, Yoshino Kimura, Yuki Uchida, Yumiko Fujita

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so ...

Genre: Comedy,Crime

Actors:Akio Tanaka, Akira Nakao, Akira Takarada, Hōsei Komatsu, Nobuko Miyamoto, Shirō Itō, Takehiro Murata, Toshiro Yanagiba, Yasuo Daichi, Yuji Miyake

During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric ...

Genre: Horror,Science Fiction

Actors:Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Fuyuki Murakami, Momoko Kôchi, Raymond Burr, Ren Yamamoto, Sachio Sakai, Tadashi Okabe, Takashi Shimura, Toyoaki Suzuki

Mothra’s dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Fantasy,Science Fiction

Actors:Akiji Kobayashi, Akira Takarada, Keiko Imamura, Kenpachirō Satsuma, Makoto Ôtake, Megumi Odaka, Saburo Shinoda, Satomi Kobayashi, Takehiro Murata, Tetsuya Bessho

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Fantasy,Science Fiction,Thriller

Actors:Akira Takarada, Don Frye, Kane Kosugi, Kazuki Kitamura, Kumi Mizuno, Maki Mizuno, Masahiro Matsuoka, Masanobu Takashima, Masatô Ibu, Rei Kikukawa

The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Akira Takarada, Atsuko Ichinomiya, Hideji Ōtaki, Hiroshi Okochi, Kin Sugai, Masahiko Tsugawa, Mitsuko Ishii, Nobuko Miyamoto, Ryūnosuke Kaneda, Shōgo Shimada

A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Science Fiction

Actors:Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Cesar Romero, Hikaru Kuroki, Joseph Cotten, Mari Nakayama, Masumi Okada, Patricia Medina, Richard Jaeckel, Tetsu Nakamura

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 ...

Genre: Action,Fantasy,Horror,Science Fiction

Actors:Akira Takarada, Hideyo Amamoto, Ikio Sawamura, Linda Miller, Mie Hama, Nadao Kirino, Rhodes Reason, Ryuji Kita, Sachio Sakai, Yoshibumi Tajima

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi ...

Genre: Action,Fantasy,Science Fiction

Actors:Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Chōtarō Tōgin, Hideo Sunazuka, Hideyo Amamoto, Ikio Sawamura, Jun Tazaki, Kumi Mizuno, Tōru Ibuki

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth’s people to help save ...

Genre: Action,Science Fiction

Actors:Akira Kubo, Akira Takarada, Gen Shimizu, Jun Tazaki, Keiko Sawai, Kenzō Tabu, Kumi Mizuno, Nick Adams, Takamaru Sasaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. ...

Genre: Action,Drama,Science Fiction

Actors:Akira Takarada, Emi Ito, Hiroshi Koizumi, Jun Tazaki, Kenji Sahara, Kenzō Tabu, Yoshibumi Tajima, Yū Fujiki, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim ...

Genre: Action,Drama,History

Actors:Akira Takarada, Makoto Satō, Matsumoto Hakuō I, Seizaburō Kawazu, Tadao Takashima, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirō Mifune, Yōsuke Natsuki, Yūzō Kayama

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Aiko Mimasu, Akira Takarada, Fubuki Koshiji, Isuzu Yamada, Mitsuko Kusabue, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yōko Tsukasa, Yoshie Mizutani, Yumi Shirakawa

Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katō, Hideko Takamine, Hiroshi Koizumi, Keiko Awaji, Masayuki Mori, Mitsuko Kusabue, Reiko Dan, Setsuko Hara, Tatsuya Nakadai

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 ...

Genre: Action,Drama,Fantasy

Actors:Akira Kubo, Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Kyōko Kagawa, Misa Uehara, Setsuko Hara, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Tsukasa

Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Eiko Miyoshi, Kamatari Fujiwara, Keiko Awaji, Sachio Sakai, Seizaburō Kawazu, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Tsukasa, Yoshibumi Tajima

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, ...

Genre: Crime

Actors:Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Haruo Tanaka, Keiko Yanagawa, Koji Tsuruta, Makoto Satō, Mickey Curtis, Mitsuko Kusabue, Seizaburō Kawazu, Yōsuke Natsuki