Godzilla

7.3

After a volcanic eruption on Daikoku Island, the Yahata-Maru Japanese fishing vessel is caught in strong currents off its shores the island begins to erupt, and a giant monster lifts itself out of the volcano reporter…

Godzilla

7.8

When the ocean's surface begins to boil white-hot and a Japanese freighter Eiko-maru vanishes into the Pacific, the superstitious villagers of Odo Island Fishing mysteriously drop to zero elder fear an ancient legend…

Godzilla Minus One

8.6

Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. (Source: IMDb)

Shin Godzilla

7.7

All of the sudden, a giant creature immediately appears, destroying town after town plunged into chaos with its landing reaching the capital. This mysterious giant monster is named "Godzilla".

Mothra vs. Godzilla

7.2

News reporter Ichiro Sakai and photographer Junko Nakanishi take pictures of a wreckage caused by a typhoon and they uncover a giant egg on the shore. The local villagers salvage it, and an entrepreneur of Happy Enterprises…

Godzilla Raids Again

6.5

After an emergency landing on a deserted island in the Pacific, young pilots, Tsukioka and Kobayashi, stumble into an epic clash between Godzilla and the monster, Anguirus. The giant beasts drag their battle into the…

Godzilla X Mechagodzilla

7.6

As a typhoon is raging across Japan, a loud roar alerts the populace that they are once again being visited by a rampaging monster. The military manages to drive the beast back into the ocean, but another attack looks…

Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

7.6

Birth Island, home of Godzilla is destroyed and it is discovered that Godzilla has developed a bright flaming glow, proving his nuclear energy is out of control. Fearing Godzilla will soon explode, the G-Force tries…

Godzilla: Final Wars

7.5

Godzilla's 50th Anniversary project and costliest adventure to date out of 28 films. Earth has been relatively peaceful since Godzilla was successfully buried deep in ice beneath the South Pole. Then - sometimes a…

Godzilla, Mothra, & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

7.5

Godzilla is back, this time under the helm of Gamera Director Shusuke Kaneko. In Kaneko’s vision of the gray leviathan Godzilla returns to Japan to seek vengeance on a modern Japan that has forgotten the horrors…

Ifukube Akira

Akira Ifukube was born on 31 May 1914 in Kushiro, Japan as the third son of a police officer Toshimitsu Ifukube. The origins of this family can be traced back to at least the 7th century with the birth of Ifukibe-no-Tokotarihime. He was strongly influenced by the Ainu music as he spent his childhood…

Kuroiwa Yoshitami

Kuroiwa Yoshitami was a Japanese film editor. Mainly working at Toho, he edited over 100 films, including Rickshaw Man, for which Hiroshi Inagaki won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He worked on many Toho war films as well as on several editions of the Godzilla series. He also edited many…

Arikawa Sadamasa

Arikawa Sadamasa is a Japanese special effects cinematographer and director. After his tour as a bomber pilot during WWII, Arikawa joined up briefly with Toho, but soon left over disputes with the workers’ union. Arikawa encountered Tsuburaya Eiji and joined his private film effects company, during…

Oda Motoyoshi

An English major who graduated from Waseda University, one of Japan's most prestigious, in 1935, Motoyoshi Oda was promptly accepted into the directors' program at Tokyo's P.C.L. (Photo Chemical Laboratories, a film company later incorporated into Toho Studios). He studied under director Kajiro Yamamoto,…

Hirata Akihiko

He had an unusual background for an actor: his formal education began in a kindergarten founded by the wartime-era Japanese Imperial Army and continued in a military academy which was Tokyo's answer to West Point. Upon graduating from Tokyo University, Hirata confounded many family expectations of him…

Echigo Ken

Echigo joined Toho as a student in the second “New Face” class of actors in 1947 (incidentally, he was in the same class with actress Shiozawa Toki. He did not garner any lead roles, but he appeared frequently in bit parts throughout the 50s and 60s, including numerous science fiction films. He…

Tajima Yoshibumi

In 1937, he participated in the founding of a small art theater. Dropped out of college in 1941. In 1946, he joined the Haiyuza Theater Company due to "the love of the actress Sumako" ( Shochiku, Kenji Mizoguchi ) In 1954, he left the Haiyuza Theater Company and entered Nikkatsu, where he resumed film…

Arishima Ichiro

Arishima Ichiro was a Japanese comedian and actor. Nicknamed "The Japanese Chaplin," he is best known outside Japan for his appearance as Tako, the promoter of King Kong in King Kong vs. Godzilla. Arishima's real name was Oshima Tadao. He was born in Nagoya and both of his parents died when he was a…

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…

Takarada Akira

Akira Takarada was a Japanese film actor who is most known in the west for his roles in the Godzilla film series. Takarada was born in Japan-occupied Korea, and lived for a time in Harbin, China. His father worked as an engineer on the South Manchuria Railway. After the war, he remained in Harbin, and…