Fuyuki Murakami
notum enim: Acting
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The Scent of Incense
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...
release : 1964.05.24popularis : 3.343
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 : 3.92
Japanese Spiderman: Episode 0
The Iron Cross Army are sabotaging oil-tankers with the help of their monster, the Sea-Devil, a semi-mechanical anthropomorphic swordfish with an...
release : 1978.07.22popularis : 4.873
The Mysterians
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...
release : 1957.12.28popularis : 6.088
Battle in Outer Space
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and...
release : 1959.12.26popularis : 7.601
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't
A college senior, Shuhei, is blackmailed by a professor into joining the school's sumo team. He is aided by a group of misfits who must team together...
release : 1992.01.15popularis : 2.653
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.
release : 1957.12.17popularis : 5.114
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part two (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...
release : 1957.07.19popularis : 1.987
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 : 4.993
Farewell Rabaul
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...
release : 1954.02.10popularis : 3.724
The Human Vapor
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks...
release : 1960.12.11popularis : 4.459
Invisible Man
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
release : 1954.12.29popularis : 3.2
The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double...
release : 1974.11.22popularis : 6.172
Big Shots Die at Dawn
An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively...
release : 1961.04.09popularis : 3.847
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 : 13.949
Varan the Unbelievable
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...
release : 1962.12.07popularis : 3.296
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 : 30.06
Rodan
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the...
release : 1956.12.26popularis : 17.696
Ikiru
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...
release : 1952.10.09popularis : 17.236
Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
release : 1975.11.01popularis : 1.416
Sudden Rain
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
release : 1956.01.14popularis : 3.189
Ultra Q: The 1/8 Project
Theatrical version of episode 17 of Ultra Q TV series.
release : 1990.04.14popularis : 0.182
Fancy Dance
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic...
release : 1989.12.23popularis : 3.624
The Secret of the Telegian
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
release : 1960.04.10popularis : 2.742
Phoenix
A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.
release : 1947.12.11popularis : 1.294
Tokyo Profile
A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...
release : 1953.07.08popularis : 1.905
Falling into the Evening
Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she...
release : 1998.11.07popularis : 3.93
Mr. Pu
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
release : 1953.04.15popularis : 2.46
Stray Sheep
1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
release : 1955.08.31popularis : 1.444
Varan
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover...
release : 1958.10.14popularis : 4.529
Two in the Shadow
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...
release : 1967.11.18popularis : 5.582
Foghorn
A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
release : 1952.03.03popularis : 3.377
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and...
release : 1948.09.18popularis : 4.493
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 : 17.231
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...
release : 1952.11.02popularis : 2.226
Adolescence Part II
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
release : 1953.07.01popularis : 1.694
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 : 1.466
The Breed
Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!
release : 2000.10.02popularis : 1.042
Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...
release : 1961.01.15popularis : 4.928
Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...
release : 1955.01.15popularis : 8.067
Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...
release : 1968.08.14popularis : 5.222
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 : 2.162
Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...
release : 1953.10.21popularis : 1.861
Adolescence
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
release : 1952.08.28popularis : 2.024
Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
release : 1953.07.29popularis : 1.998
Girls in the Orchard
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
release : 1953.09.15popularis : 1.179
はりきり社長
The third instalment in the Shacho Series.
release : 1956.07.13popularis : 0.965
The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting...
release : 1960.01.03popularis : 6.122
Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
release : 1967.08.03popularis : 9.384
Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...
release : 1952.07.15popularis : 2.975
Life of a Country Doctor
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...
release : 1960.08.14popularis : 5.631