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, Momoko Kôchi, Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi, Keizō Kawasaki, Takashi Shimura, Yukio Mishima

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Eiji Okada, Kei Satō, Takashi Shimura, Yukiyo Toake

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father’s house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister ...

Genre: Comedy

Actors:Chieko Baisho, Chishū Ryū, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Sachiko Mitsumoto, Takashi Shimura

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Kayo Mikimoto, Kyōsuke Machida, Takashi Shimura, Yumiko Nogawa

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

Genre: Action,Fantasy,Science Fiction,Thriller

Actors:Emi Ito, Hiroshi Koizumi, Takashi Shimura, Yōsuke Natsuki, 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:Matsumoto Hakuō I, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Toshirō Mifune, Yūzō Kayama

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:Setsuko Hara, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Tsukasa

Returning to their lord’s castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Eiko Miyoshi, Masao Shimizu, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the ...

Genre: Action,Horror,Science Fiction

Actors:Hiroshi Koizumi, Masao Shimizu, Minoru Chiaki, Setsuko Wakayama, Takashi Shimura

A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Inaba

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 ...

Genre: Horror,Science Fiction,Thriller

Actors:Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Fuyuki Murakami, Momoko Kôchi, Takashi Shimura

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Bokuzen Hidari, Haruo Tanaka, Miki Odagiri, Nobuo Kaneko, Takashi Shimura

Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love ...

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Masayuki Mori, Setsuko Hara, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery

Actors:Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

A young idealistic doctor works at his father’s clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Isamu Yamaguchi, Kenjiro Uemura, Miki Sanjō, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

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 ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery,Thriller

Actors:Eiko Miyoshi, Keiko Awaji, Noriko Sengoku, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Chieko Nakakita, Michiyo Kogure, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Akitake Kōno, Setsuko Wakayama, Takashi Shimura, Toshirō Mifune, Yoshio Kosugi

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to ...

Genre: Adventure,Drama,History,Thriller

Actors:Denjirō Ōkōchi, Kenichi Enomoto, Masayuki Mori, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Denjirō Ōkōchi, Ryūnosuke Tsukigata, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Yukiko Todoroki