Akira Kubo Movies

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Kubo

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into...

Genre: War

Cast: Makoto Satō

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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....

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Kubo

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tadao Takashima

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Nick Adams

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Akira Kubo

A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tsuyoshi Ihara

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

An independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world's greatest monster, Godzilla. Filmed on location in Tokyo...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Akira Takarada

To encourage a positive attitude, hearing-impaired mother Asako joins a theatrical troupe with her daughter Ai. Problems arise during rehearsals...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Oshidari

Tatsuo was leading a peaceful suburban life with his wife and daughter. But an ex-girlfriend attends his bridge club. Then Haruo, an old friend,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takeshi Kaga

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper's daughter. When one of the youths die the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

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...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo.

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When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese 'Rakugo' storyteller due to her uncle's invalidity, she is soon on her way to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mimura

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Aoyama

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...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Akira Takarada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Daisuke Katō

Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: War

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Akira Takarada

Genre: Horror

Cast: Masanori Kikuzawa

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsurō Tamba

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materials for the water dam construction. Kitami, who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople. Under the name of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kikunosuke Onoe V

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dankan

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Makoto Satō