Giant monsters are rampaging in cities across the globe, and as the Earth Defense Force struggles to find a way to defeat the...
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2004
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Veteran filmmaker Juzo Itami spins this biting satire cum do-it-yourself video about the do's and don'ts of dealing with...
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Kobayashi
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1992
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Long kissing scenes and a mention of abortion do not balance out the stiff dialogue in this film about a Japanese-Hawaiian...
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1983
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A windsurfer becomes the true love of a young girl promised to another in an arranged marriage. ~ Rovi...
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1983
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1969
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Rhodes Reason is the requisite Hollywood "name" actor in the Japanese-produced King Kong Escapes. While hacking through the...
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Jiro
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1967
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A Japanese college student has lots of adventures when he and his soccer team got to Hong Kong for a game. There he causes a...
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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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Yashi
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1966
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The Daphne refers to Hariko Sugimura, a widow with four daughters. Two of the girls still live at home; the other two are...
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1966
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Toho's bid to merge the Godzilla series with their popular alien-invasion films resulted in this entertainingly goofy entry....
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1965
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In this crime drama, Hong Kong morphine smugglers successfully ply their trade until an intrepid detective begins...
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Susumu Uzuki
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1965
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Ishiro Honda directed this fourth Godzilla film (the second for Mothra), which is bogged down at the start by an...
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News Reporter
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1964
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This hilarious monster mess from the makers of the Godzilla series (including director Inoshiro Honda) essentially recruits...
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1964
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In this romance, a Japanese goes to Honolulu to visit his younger brother, a student at the University of Hawaii. On the...
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Yuichi Okamoto
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1963
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Nobuko (Hideko Takamine) is a gentle Japanese woman who endures several ordeals during her adult life in this somber,...
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Koichi
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1963
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In this Japanese romantic comedy, a Japanese-American nuclear scientist returns to Japan to search for a wife to cater to...
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1963
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This Japanese drama chronicles the trials and joys of five young women struggling to live and love in a modern Tokyo suburb....
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1962
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This Japanese drama presents the biography of popular Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi. The story begins as she is born to her...
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1962
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1962
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In this drama, a girl leaves her home in Hong Kong to study in Japan. There she tries to reject the advances of a would-be...
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1962
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This sweeping historical epic has sometimes been labelled the Gone with the Wind of Japan; at any rate, it's almost the same...
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1962
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The attack on Pearl Harbor is presented from the Japanese point of view in this war drama. The story centers upon Natsuki,...
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1961
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1961
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The highly accomplished Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu demonstrates his stylistic touch for deceptive simplicity, rapier wit,...
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1961
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In this Japanese romantic melodrama, a reporter is assigned to cover a story in Hong Kong. There he meets a lovely Chinese...
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1961
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This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon. ~ Jason...
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1961
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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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Another example of a fairly interesting Japanese monster film rendered nearly incomprehensible by ham-fisted editing and...
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1958
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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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Hideto Ogata
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1956
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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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