This Japanese-American co-production is set sometime in the near future. The United Nations Space Bureau sends its star...
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1977
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A race of malevolent aliens bent on world domination unleash the ultimate weapon of destruction on mankind, leaving them...
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1975
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This speculative drama's original name, Prophecies of Nostradamus is perhaps more descriptive of the subject. Set in the year...
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1975
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This time, the overgrown-lizard hero is confronted by a mechanical doppelganger, courtesy of an army of extraterrestrial...
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Professor Hideto Miyajima
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1974
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1969
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In this Japanese costumer set in the 17th century, three powerful families endeavor to keep three sacred scrolls from ever...
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1968
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In this sequel to the Japanese epic, Secret Scrolls, Part 1 (1957), the Samurai wizard and his brother finally find one of...
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1968
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The Japanese gargantuan reptile fathers a son who is a chip off the old eggshell. The men of the family take on oversized...
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1967
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This star-studded and relatively lavishly produced fact-based war drama, set in 1945 Japan during WW II, chronicles the...
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1967
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The seventh film in Toho's Godzilla series (and the first without the direction of Inoshiro Honda), this colorful installment...
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1966
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In this Japanese sci-fi adventure, Japan and the rest of the planet is being destroyed by a deadly series of earthquakes....
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1965
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1964
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Spaceship Otori (J-X Eagle) Captain Endo
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1964
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A true "monster rally," this Japanese special-effects smorgasbord stars no fewer than four "A"-list movie monstrosities. Once...
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1964
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This preposterous battle between the huge ape King Kong and the fire-breathing dinosaur Gojira marked the beginning of Toho...
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1962
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Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or...
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1962
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Mothra was the third major addition to the Toho Studios' giant-monster stable after Godzilla and Rodan, and the first female...
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1961
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1961
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Director Jerry A. Baerwitz created this uninspired, problematical monster story by using footage from a similar but different...
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1961
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In this patriotic Japanese WW II drama, the army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they...
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1961
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Mohei (Toshiro Mifune) is the samurai warrior who battles against the Portuguese arsenal of guns and cannons. With these...
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1961
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Two war buddies help each other defend their businesses against gangsters in this crime drama. ~ Rovi...
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1961
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The H-Man rates as one of the most genuinely frightening Japanese horror films of the 1950s. When a minor-league drug runner...
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Inspector Tominaga
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1959
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This well-wrought, visually stunning tale from Japanese mythology is directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and relates the adventures...
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1959
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1959
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Most famous for his original Godzilla film in 1956, director Inoshiro Honda is primarily a screenwriter and quite seldom a...
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Ryoichi Schiraishi
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1957
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The second major addition to Toho Studios' giant-monster series after Gojira (aka Godzilla, 1954), was Rodan (or Radon), a...
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1956
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Filmed in 1954 as Gojira, this grandaddy of all Japanese giant-reptile epics was picked up for American distribution two...
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Daisuke Serizawa
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1956
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Musashi Miyamoto was the first entry in Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Ingaki's Samurai trilogy. Toshiro Mifune is Takezo, a...
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Seijuro Yoshioka
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1955
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Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple follows the adventures of the 17th-century samurai Musashi Miyamoto (Toshiro Mifune), as...
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1955
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1954
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One of the longest-running series in film history began with Ishiro Honda's grim, black-and-white allegory for the...
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1954
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