Akahige 1965  N/R, 185 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Red Beard
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yoko Naito, Terumi Niki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Akemi Negishi, Kyoko Kagawa, Kamatari Fujiwara
Set in the early 19th century, this long film tells the story of Dr. Kyojio Niide, "Red Beard" (Toshiro Mifine, in his last film for Director Kurosawa), who works at a charity clinic in a poverty-stricken area. Dr. Niide takes a new intern, Noboru (Yuzo Kayama) under his wing. Noboru is arrogant and rebellious, not understanding why so much time is spent on the poor. Over time, Red Beard brings the young doctor around.
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Battle in Outer Space 1959  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
Director: Ishiro Honda
Cast: Ryo Ikebe, Kyoko Anzai, Koreya Senda, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hisaya Ito, Kozo Nomura, Minoru Takada, Leonard Stanford, Nadao Kinno, Fuyuki Murakami, Malcolm Pearce, Leonard Walsh, Harold Conway, Ikio Sawamura, Takashi Okabe
Earth's nations join forces to protect the planet from invading aliens who want to take over Earth. The aliens are operating from their base on the Moon, and the humans' plan is to fly to the Moon and destroy them in order to save the planet. Special effects are great.
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Destroy All Monsters 1968 G, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
Director: Ishiro Honda
Cast: Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kyoko Ai, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kenji Sahara, Andrew Hughes, Haruo Nakajima, Hisaya Ito, Yoshifumi Tajima, Chotaro Togin, Seishiro Kuno
Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and all the other monsters have been quarantined on an island, and the skyline is peaceful. But wait! Evil aliens appear on the scene and release all the monsters onto large cities of Earth in order to take control. Only the daring crew of a rocket ship can save the day.
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Frankenstein Conquers the World 1965  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi / Drama / Horror
Director: Ishiro Honda
Cast: Nick Adams, Tadao Takashima, Kumi Mizuno, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Koji Furuhata, Jun Tazaki, Takashi Shimura, Susumi Fujita, Nobuo Nakamura, Kenji Sahara, Yoshifumi Tajima, Kozo Nomura, Haruya Kato, Yoshio Kosugi, Ikio Sawamura
This Japanese entry into the Frankenstein genre features a gigantic monster that mutates from Dr. Frankenstein's heart and raises havoc. The monster grabs helicopters out of the air when they attack it and takes on the lizard monster Barugon, the guardian of Mount Fuji..
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Gigantis the Fire Monster 1955 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi / Drama / Horror / Romance
aka: Godzilla Raids Again
Director: Motoyoshi Oda
Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Haruo Nakajima, Takeo Oikawa, Masao Shimizu, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Masao Shimizu, Seijiro Onda, Sonosuke Sawamura, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Mayuri Mokusho, Minosuke Yamada, Yukio Kasama, Senkichi Omura
Tsukioka (Hiroshi Koizumi) and Kobayashi (Minoru Chiaki) are pilots working as spotters for a Japanese fishing fleet when Kobayashi's plane crash lands on a frozen island. Tsukioka lands on the island to rescue him. They discover two giant monsters and head back to Japan to warn the government. Dinosaur expert Dr. Tadokoro (Maso Shimizu) identifies the monsters as fire monsters Angurus and Gigantis. Panic sets in when the monsters arrive in Japan, and cities fall like children's toy blocks before Angurus is destroyed, and Gigantis is buried in a glacier of ice.
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Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah 1991 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi / Action / Drama / Horror
aka: Gojira vs. Kingu Gidora
Director: Kazuki Omori
Cast: Kosuke Toyohara, Anna Nakagawa, Megumi Odaka, Chuck Wilson, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tokuma Nishioka, Kenji Sahara, Koichi Ueda, Kenpachiro Satsuma, "Hurricane Ryu" Hariken, So Yamamura, Yasunori Yuge, Kiwako Harada
Time travelers from the 23rd century return to the present, warn Japan that Godzilla will soon cause a catastrophic nuclear incident, and suggest how to rid the world of the monster. The plan is to go back to the 1940s and kill the one living dinosaur that was turned into the monster during the Bikini atomic weapons testing. But–the visitors have a motive: get rid of Godzilla and have their own monster, King Ghidorah, wreak havoc on Japan because Japan has become the economic power on Earth in the 23 century. But Godzilla is still out there, and the battle begins.
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Godzilla vs. Monster Zero 1965 G, 93 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Romance
aka: Monster Zero
Battle of the Astros
Invasion of Astro-Monster
Director: Ishiro Honda
Cast: Nick Adams, Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Keiko Sawai, Jun Tazaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Akira Kubo, Takamaru Sasaki, Yoshifumi Tajima, Gen Shimizu, Kenzo Tabu, Nadao Kinino, Koji Uno, Toru Ibuki, Kazuo Suzuki
Planet X inhabitants want to borrow Godzilla and Rodan to rid their planet of three-headed Monster Zero (better known from other movies as Ghidrah). But wait, could this be a trick to get our monster heroes out of the way so that the aliens can invade Earth?
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High and Low 1963  N/R, 143 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Thriller
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Isao Kimura, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Takeshi Kato, Jun Tazaki, Nobuo Nakamura, Yunosuke Ito, Minoru Chiaki, Yoshio Tsuchiya
Wealthy businessman Kingo Gondo is ordered to pay a ransom to the kidnappers of his son (Kyoko Kagawa). He is ready to pay the ransom when he finds his son safe at home. In a case of mistaken identity, his chauffeur's (Yutaka Sada) son is the kidnap victim. The kidnapper calls Gondo, admits that he made a mistake, and still demands the ransom money. Now, Gondo must decide between another person's safety and his own financial security.
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Matango 1963 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Attack of the Mushroom People
Curse of the Mushroom People
Fungus of Terror
Director: Ishiro Honda
Cast: Akira Kubo, Kenji Sahara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kumi Mizuno, Miki Yashiro, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Eisei Amamoto, Jiro Kumagai, Akio Kusama
After eating toadstools found on an island, shipwrecked vacationers transform into giant toadstools. Only one escapes; but, after returning to the mainland, he starts sprouting mushrooms on his face.
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The Mysterians 1957 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
aka: Earth Defense Force
Director: Ishiro Honda
Cast: Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Hisaya Ito, Fuyuki Murakami, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Tetsu Nakamura, Yutaka Sada, Takeo Oikawa
After the nuclear destruction of their planet, aliens arrive to take over the Earth and its women in order to start a new civilization. And the nonstop special effects battles begin.
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Son of Godzilla 1967  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
Director: Jun Fukuda
Cast: Tadao Takashima, Akira Kubo, Bibari Maeda, Akihiko Hirata, Kenji Sahara, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kenichiro Maruyama, Seishiro Kuno, Yasuhiko Saijo, Susumu Kurobe, Seiji Onaka, Haruo Nakajima, Kazuo Suzuki, Chotaro Togin, Wataru Omae
The son of Godzilla and gigantic insects involve themselves in a fight to the death for the exclusive rights of a Pacific island.
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Throne of Blood 1957  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Action / Fantasy / Thriller
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki, Takamaru Sasaki, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Chieko Naniwa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Isao Kimura, Kokuten Kodo, Kichijiro Ueda, Eiko Miyoshi, Nakajiro Tomita, Yu Fujiki
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is transplanted into 16th-century Japan during a civil war in this excellent film from director Akira Kurosawa. The story begins when Washizu (Toshiro Mifune) and Miki (Minoru Chiaki) are lost in a forest where they encounter a ghostly woman who predicts that Washizu will rise in power. Later, Washizu listens to the goading of his wife, Asaji (Isuzu Yamada), and becomes involved in a plot to kill the ruler. The evil deed is done, but now Washizu must deal with his guilt and ultimate downfall.
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Yog: Monster from Space 1970 G, 84 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
aka: Space Amoeba
Director: Ishiro Honda
Cast: Akira Kubo, Atsuko Takahashi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yukiko Kobayashi, Kenji Sahara, Yu Fujiki, Noritake Saito, Yuko Sugihara, Sachio Sakai, Chotaro Togin, Tetsu Nakamura
While planning a resort hotel on a remote Pacific island, promoters discover giant mutant monsters under the control of alien beings that crash landed on the island during a space probe.
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| 1. Akahige (1965)
aka: Red Beard
2. Battle in Outer Space (1959)
3. Destroy All Monsters (1968)
4. Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
5. Gigantis the Fire Monster (1955)
aka: Godzilla Raids Again
6. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
aka: Gojira vs. Kingu Gidora
7. Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1965)
aka: Monster Zero
aka: Battle of the Astros
aka: Invasion of Astro-Monster
8. High and Low (1963)
9. Matango (1963)
aka: Attack of the Mushroom People
aka: Curse of the Mushroom People
aka: Fungus of Terror
10. The Mysterians (1957)
aka: Earth Defense Force
11. Son of Godzilla (1967)
12. Throne of Blood (1957)
13. Yog: Monster from Space (1970)
aka: Space Amoeba
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