Akira Kurosawa's swansong is a delicate, sentimental portrait of his long avowed hero, educator and literary figure Hyakken...
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First Assistant Director
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1993
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Master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa follows up on his phantasmorgic Dreams with this delicate tale about war and memory. The...
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First Assistant Director
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1991
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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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Director
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1975
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Japan and the rest of the world are again in grave danger after an evil amoeba-like alien emerges from a spaceship crash and...
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Director
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1971
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Director
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1969
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The most unashamedly childish entry in the Godzilla franchise is basically a vehicle for recycled footage from previous Toho...
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Director
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1969
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Packaged in the States with director Honda's 1964 feature Gorath, this sci-fi film tells the story of an ex-con who has...
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Director
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1968
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This colorful, no-holds-barred clash of the titans -- directed by Inoshiro Honda (one of monsterdom's foremost experts) --...
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Screenwriter
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1968
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1967
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Two gigantic fake-fur covered monsters battle it out in Tokyo. A mutation caused by an atomic blast, the green Gargantua is...
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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Director
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1965
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In this Japanese feature, when diamond robbers find that a kind of goo from outer space is beating them to the diamonds and...
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Director
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1965
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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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Director
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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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Director
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1964
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Director
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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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Director
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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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Director
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1964
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This twisted, surreal monster story is related in flashback by an asylum inmate, who tells of his horrific experiences as one...
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Director
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1963
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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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Director
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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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Director
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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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Director
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1961
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With his name firmly ensconced in film history as the creator of the Godzilla and Rodan films, director Inoshiro Honda...
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Director
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1960
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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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Director
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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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Director
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1958
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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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Director
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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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Director
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1954
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First Assistant Director
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1949
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Akira Kurosawa directs the black-and-white 1949 film noir Nora Inu (released in the U.S. in 1963 as Stray Dog). In his third...
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First Assistant Director
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1949
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First Assistant Director
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1938
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Humanity and Paper Balloons, unlike most other Japanese films of this period, is a historical film with a critical edge....
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First Assistant Director
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1937
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First Assistant Director
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1937
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