Akira Takarada Movies

Godzilla - Das Original

76/100

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

66/100

A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

Mothra vs. Godzilla

65/100

A greedy developer unwittingly hatches a gigantic baby moth upon Tokyo, while Godzilla strikes once again.

Invasion of Astro-Monster

64/100

Aliens from Planet X request the use of Godzilla and Rodan to fight off King Ghidorah, but have a better use for the three monsters.

Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster

53/100

A young man steals a boat to find his brother, but he and his shipmates become shipwrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by a giant sea monster and a slumbering Godzilla.

King Kong Escapes

56/100

King Kong is brought in by an evil ruler to dig for precious gems in a mine when the robot MechaKong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle that threatens to level Japan.

Chushingura

78/100

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Latitude Zero

61/100

A journalist is saved by a giant submarine captained by a 200 year old man who takes him to an underwater paradise city where no one ages. That's when monsters and mutants sent by the captain's rival, a 200 year old scientist, attack.

Samurai Saga

71/100

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 lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so ... See full summary »

Todesstrahlen aus dem Weltall

64/100

This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.

Jû jin yuki otoko

61/100

A yeti terrorizes people on top of Mount Fuji.

Ironfinger

64/100

A Japanese-Frenchman on vacation is caught up in a criminal conspiracy along with a female bomb expert and a bumbling Detective.

A Woman's Life

74/100

A Sparkle of Life

67/100

A Wanderer's Notebook

75/100

Daughters, Wives and a Mother

74/100

Ankokugai no kaoyaku

71/100

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder...

Evening Stream

72/100

Honkon no yoru

75/100

Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong

52/100

Mito Kômon man'yûki

70/100

Shin kurama tengu daisanbu

26/100

Daigaku no nijuhachin

Zui chang de yi ye

Kokkura suzumaru