Nikaido Fumi

Nikaido Fumi is an actress and fashion model born in Naha, Okinawa. She is currently managed by Sony Music Artists. She got off to an early start in show business at age 13, appearing in her first TV drama, Juken no Kamisama (2007). Just two years later she played Hikari in her first theatrically released…

Shibuya Hideo

Toho 's exclusive actor. He has appeared in numerous films regardless of genre, and often plays a newspaper reporter , especially in special effects films . There is no record of movie appearances since 1970, but it seems that he retired when the actor-exclusive system collapsed in the same year.

Tachibana Masaaki

Ubiquitous, well-liked, Toho-exclusive actor, nicknamed “Bana” on set. Tachibana joined Toho in 1950 and remained until the contract system collapsed in 1970. He appeared in numerous sci-fi films and is perhaps best known as the unintentionally funny, doomed reporter going down with Tokyo Tower…

Tsubono Kamayuki

He was an exclusive actor of Toho and also belonged to Mifune Productions . Appeared in many works regardless of genre, including special effects movies and movies starring Toshiro Mifune .

Ishida Shigeki

A Toho-exclusive actor who appeared in numerous supporting roles during the 60s in sci-fi, fantasy and comedy movies. He was active in television through the 80s. He retired and became a Buddhist monk and a chief priest in a Temple in his hometown, Kanazawa. After his death in 1997 his son, actor and…

Mizuno Kumi

Japanese actress, most famous for appearing in several Toho Kaiju films of the 1960s and early 1970s. Her most famous roles include Miss Namikawa in Invasion of Astro-Monster, Dr. Sueko Togami in Frankenstein Conquers the World, and the island girl Dayo in Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. She is also known…

Honda Ishiro

Honda Ishiro was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He is best known for his kaiju and tokusatsu films, including several entries in the Godzilla series, but also worked extensively in the documentary and war genres earlier in his career. His early film career included working…

Nakajima Haruo

Nakajima was born in Yamagata, Japan. His first credited role in a motion picture was in the 1952 film Sword for Hire. He began his career as a stunt actor in samurai films and he acted in a small role in the 1954 film Seven Samurai, portraying a bandit. He was considered by many to be the best suit…

Frankenstein's Love

7.2

A century after his creation, a compassionate, immortal monster hides in the forest, dreaming of living as a human. When he meets a terminally ill young woman named Tsugaru-san, he falls in love and begins to understand…

Saitoh Takumi

Saitoh Takumi is a Japanese model, actor, photographer, director, screenwriter, and producer born in Tokyo, Japan. He has also previously performed as a singer. He displayed some of his talents in music in 2006 when he acted and sang in "Musical: The Prince of Tennis". Then, in 2007, he released his…

Tajima Yumika

The War of the Gargantuas

7.0

The sole survivor of a Japanese fishing boat is hospitalized in extreme shock, and later tells a story that no one wants to believe. In the woods, campers and hikers disappear and leave only chewed-up clothes, and…

Frankenstein Father

Young Jae, a teenager born from illegally sold sperm, goes to Chi Sung, a physician who had sold it when he was 20 years old. Young Jae demands a so-called ‘compensation for damages,’ claiming Chi Sung is responsible…

Frankenstein Conquers the World

6.6

During WWII, a human heart taken from a certain lab in Europe (Dr. Frankenstein's) is kept in a Japanese lab, when it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and…

The Last Frankenstein

6.5

Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor’s wife years earlier - which was caused by a suicide plague running rampant throughout the city. Dr. Aryo lives in…

Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl

6.1

The film is set in a typical Tokyo High School following the story of a perpetually teenage vampire named Monami who falls for her classmate, Mizushima, who happens to already be the reluctant boyfriend to the vice-principal/science…

A Beautiful Mind

8.2

Lee Yeong Oh is a genius neurosurgeon who just came back to Korea after finishing his studies abroad. He now works with his father, Lee Gun Myung, who is the head of the cardio-cerebrovascular center at Hyunsung hospital.…

Godzilla vs. Gigan

6.8

A man begins to suspect that something is wrong about his employers; meanwhile, Godzilla and Anguirus are alerted to something strange going on as Giant insectoid aliens from a dying planet in "Space Hunter Nebula-M"…

Mixed Up

A kids-in-peril horror comedy with a vampire and something that looks like the Frankenstein monster. (Source: Letterboxd)

Dororo

7.2

The hero, Hyakkimaru is a wandering "demon hunter" whose extra body parts - 48 to be exact - were grafted onto his head and trunk by a herb doctor who discovered him as an infant, in a process that echoes "Frankenstein"…