Shigeo Katō

Usta Samuray Kambei'nin cesareti ve fedakarlığına şahit olan bir grup köylü ondan sürekli olarak haydutların baskınlarına uğrayan köylerini korumasını isterler. Kambei bu isteği herhangi bir çıkarı olmamasına rağmen kabul eder ve ilk olarak kısa süre sonra müridi olan genç samuray Katsushiro'yu, ardından da güç kullanmaya meraklı bir samuray olarak görünen fakat sonradan bir çiftçinin oğlu olduğu ortaya çıkan Kikuchiyo'yu yanına alır. Takımına dört yeni samuray daha ekleyerek köyü savunmaya girişen Kambei köylüler tarafından sevinçle karşılanır ve herkesin sevgisini kazanır; bir süre sonra onlara kendilerini savunmayı öğretmeye başlar. Bu arada haydutlar köyün sınırlarında dolaşmakta ve yeni saldırıları için uygun bir zaman kollamaktadırlar...

30 yılını bir masanın başında mühür basarak ve hiçbir iş yapmayarak geçirmiş olan Bay Watanabe 1 yıldan az ömrü kaldığını öğrenince, o güne dek hiç yaşamamış olduğunu hisseder. Ancak yaşama duygusunu kolay kaybetmeye niyetli değildir.

"Düşler" farklı hikayelerin anlatıldığı, birbirinden bağımsız sekiz kısa filmden oluşuyor. "Sunshine Through The Rain", ailesi tarafından dışarı çıkması yasaklanan bir çocuğun, toplum tarafından kutsal sayılan bir günde yaşadıklarını anlatıyor. "The Peach Orchard", insanoğlunun doğaya müdahelesinin yol açtığı sonuçları vurgularken, "The Blizzard"la bir dağda mahsur kalan insanların dramını perdeye yansıtıyor. "The Tunnel", ölümlerinden sorumlu olduğu ölü askerleri bir tünel çıkışında gören adamın dramını anlatıyor... "Crows", ünlü ressam Vincent Van Gogh'un yaşadığı bölgeye ve sanatına dair bir çalışma.. Güneşli bir yaz gününde yaşananları "Village of the Watermills" ile anlatan Kurosawa, son iki bölümde ("Mount Fuji in Red" ve "The Weeping Demon") nükleer tehlikenin insanlık üzerindeki etkilerini araştırıyor..

A mailman becomes obsessed with a pretty, young wife. He captures the woman, tortures her and keeps her in his basement dungeon where she becomes his private sex toy.

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.

Akademi Ödüllü Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Ran) kariyerinin en samimi draması'(Los Angeles Times) nı sunuyor. Görsel olarak muhteşem, dokunaklı ve enfes bir destan. Nagasaki'yi çevreleyen göz kamaştırıcı kırsal alanlarda yaşanan bu hikaye, bir zamanlar savaşla parçalanmış bir Japon Ailesinin Amerikalı kuzenleriyle (Richard Gere) karşılaşmaları sonrası kendi iç hesaplaşmaları. Nagasaki ailesinin yaşlı reisi Sachiko Murase uzun yıllar boyunca 2.Dünya Savaşı'ndan kalan korkularıyla yaşamıştır. Daha önce görmediği erkek kardeşinin ortaya çıkmasıyla, Amerika'ya karşı duyduğu hisler ve peşini bırakmayan geçmişiyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalır. Kardeşini ve ailesini görmeye gitmeyi reddetmesine rağmen oğlu Clark (Gere)'ın ziyarete gelişiyle Sachiko ve ailesi şaşırtıcı ve duygusal günler geçirirler. Bir affediş öyküsü olan Rapsody In August, 'görsel olarak görkemli' (The New York Times), 'zorlayıcı' (Boxoffice) ve 'dokunaklı ve muhteşem' (Time)!

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.

A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned with the Black Hole Aliens, Katsura's life becomes entwined with the resurrected machine.

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.

Film, İkinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında emekliye ayrılan, öğrencileri tarafından çok sevilen bir profesörün yaşlanmasını konu alıyor...

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works.

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time. Soon, the parasitic life forms latch onto three indigenous critters -- a squid, a crab and a snapping turtle -- and transform them into colossal mutant monsters.

Zatoichi serisinin 26. filmnde Shintaro Katsu 10 yıl sonra klasik rolüne geri dönüyor

Efsanevi savaşçı Miyamoto Musashi hayatının erken döneminde gözü yükseklerde olan bir hayduttur. Film, bir kanun kaçağı ve sonunda onun gerçek bir samuray oluşunu anlatıyor.

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 control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.

Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.

A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.

As supernatural events and monster attacks rock Japan, the military and government look to be overwhelmed. Three intrepid young investigators—two pilots and a reporter—take it upon themselves to study these unexplained phenomena in order to inform and protect the public.

Kuroi Misa, a girl with Satanic powers, mysteriously appears in various high schools. Carrying a dagger and a heavy leather bag, she uses her powers to eliminate the evil forces that thrive on deadly sins of the human race. Her ultimate aim is to cleanse the earth and rebuild her broken family.