Akira Takarada
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1934-04-29
Locus Natus: Harbin, China
Et ut: Акира Такарада
Godzilla
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far...
release : 1954.11.03popularis : 35.395
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's...
release : 1964.04.29popularis : 18.807
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island...
release : 1966.12.17popularis : 9.796
Fantastipo
Two brothers must take the helm of their family's company, Armadillo, Inc., after their father steps down from his position as the company's...
release : 2005.02.10popularis : 1.212
The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...
release : 1961.10.29popularis : 11.847
Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...
release : 1959.12.26popularis : 1.59
Road to the Don 12
The twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.
release : 2000.03.31popularis : 0.926
47 Ronin
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
release : 1962.11.03popularis : 5.952
Godzilla: Final Wars
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay...
release : 2004.12.04popularis : 23.956
Travels of Lord Mito
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals,...
release : 1969.11.01popularis : 2.278
King Kong Escapes
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 mine when the...
release : 1967.07.22popularis : 14.259
Latitude Zero
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The...
release : 1969.07.26popularis : 2.733
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by...
release : 1992.12.12popularis : 15.152
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...
release : 1956.05.18popularis : 18.202
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world...
release : 1965.12.19popularis : 19.651
The Man of the Political Economy
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to...
release : 2015.09.19popularis : 0.92
Birth of Romance
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...
release : 1957.05.15popularis : 1.522
The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
release : 1961.10.08popularis : 4.214
Yaji and Kita on the Road
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...
release : 1958.04.29popularis : 4.096
Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...
release : 1957.03.14popularis : 1.837
Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
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 they...
release : 1992.05.16popularis : 2.71
Different Sons
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...
release : 1961.11.12popularis : 3.216
The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...
release : 1960.04.26popularis : 4.038
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote...
release : 1958.12.01popularis : 3.633
A Woman's Life
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
release : 1963.11.16popularis : 7.713
Golden Eyes
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.
release : 1968.03.16popularis : 1.59
A World Without Cherry Blossoms
Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.
release : 2022.04.01popularis : 2.215
Half Human
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
release : 1955.08.14popularis : 8.401
Ironfinger
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning...
release : 1965.12.05popularis : 3.945
Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...
release : 1959.04.28popularis : 1.836
Tales of a Golden Geisha
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 Tsugawa as...
release : 1990.06.02popularis : 4.31
My name is Reiko Shiratori! The Movie
Reiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was engaged to Takada, pretended not to be interested in her...
release : 1995.08.19popularis : 0.962
A Whistle in My Heart
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
release : 1959.03.29popularis : 2.44
The Lovelorn Geisha
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 in...
release : 1960.07.12popularis : 2.8
Legend of Plumeria
Emiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira Kuniyoshi (Shinji Yamashita), the son of the president of a...
release : 1983.07.02popularis : 0.876
A Sparkle of Life
Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life partner. Her family and friends try to dissuade her.
release : 2013.11.16popularis : 0.883
Godzilla Battle Royale
Godzilla Battle Royale is a low-budget Godzilla fan film, directed and written by Billy DuBose. It was theatrically screened in the Pickwick Theater.
release : 2014.11.06popularis : 0.884
Glory to the Filmmaker!
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 complete...
release : 2007.06.02popularis : 5.948
Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
Because his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he moved to PCL (currently Toho) in 1933, where he...
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 0.316
Godzilla
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), plus WWII newsreel...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 5.684
Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction
An independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world's greatest monster, Godzilla. Filmed on location in Tokyo...
release : 2015.07.11popularis : 1.408
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
release : 1960.05.21popularis : 1.889
A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...
release : 1962.09.29popularis : 4.519
The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...
release : 1959.01.15popularis : 3.397
Woman of Design
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
release : 1962.01.28popularis : 0.563
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is...
release : 2008.08.03popularis : 2.397
The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
release : 1962.01.14popularis : 1.876
Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: Sannin yoreba
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer's investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal...
release : 1964.05.16popularis : 0.001
Godzilla
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father,...
release : 2014.05.14popularis : 51.785
A Night in Hong Kong
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...
release : 1961.07.01popularis : 2.313
Blood and Diamonds
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
release : 1964.07.01popularis : 1.047
Sure Death 6
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an...
release : 1996.05.25popularis : 2.302
Star of Hong Kong
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....
release : 1962.07.14popularis : 1.774
The Three Treasures
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 Otomo, the...
release : 1959.11.01popularis : 7.498
Price of Beauty
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
release : 1957.03.13popularis : 0.58
Bridge over Troubled Water
Miyuki works as an OL. Her younger sibling died from a car accident in 1989. Due to her sibling's death, her mother became ill and her father drank...
release : 2018.06.30popularis : 2
Someday I'll Know
A modern love story involving different affairs.
release : 1959.09.08popularis : 1.24
Let's Go! Young Guy
College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his...
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 0.877
Dance with Me
Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and left under the spell. Now she is compelled to sing...
release : 2019.08.16popularis : 3.964
The Great Buddha: Arrival
An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Country, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro...
release : 2018.12.15popularis : 3.171
The Daphne
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...
release : 1966.10.01popularis : 0.42
City of Love
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...
release : 1958.01.21popularis : 1.03
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
release : 1957.07.09popularis : 1.432
A Far Promise
There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orphans of Manchuria refugee camp who had to struggled...
release : 2014.08.25popularis : 0.899
Woman in Witness Protection
Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness...
release : 1997.09.27popularis : 6.465
The Paradise Island Story
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
release : 1957.01.29popularis : 1.819
On Wings of Love
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first...
release : 1957.07.13popularis : 1.694
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
release : 1957.07.09popularis : 1.544
The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga
Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film...
release : 2019.04.02popularis : 2.656
Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra
A look into the production of the nineteenth Godzilla film. Includes filmmaker and actor interviews with behind the scenes footage of the film's...
release : 2010.01.22popularis : 1.148
Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is...
release : 2019.03.09popularis : 0.638
The Dangerous Kiss
Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
release : 1960.06.26popularis : 3.877
The Audition
Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!
release : 1984.11.17popularis : 2.288
Me and Me
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong...
release : 1962.08.11popularis : 2.485