Ikiru (1952)

The Return of Godzilla (1984)

Summary: The Japanese government suppresses news of Godzilla's resurrection as political tensions increase between the US and USSR, both of whom willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Release Date: December 15, 1984

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Kôji Hashimoto

Writers: Fred Dekker

, Akira Murao

, Hideichi Nagahara

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

Production: Toho Eizo Co., Toho, Toho Company, CEA Studios

Distributor: Universum-Film GmbH, New World Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 6,250,000

Man Who Causes a Storm (1957)

Summary: Shoichi is a violent young man just released from jail who aspires to be a drummer. He works his way up by playing gigs in a hip Ginza club, an eventually wins a drumming contest. But what he really desires is the approval of his ...

Release Date: December 29, 1957

Genre: Drama

Director: Umetsugu Inoue

Writers: Umetsugu Inoue

, Dai Nishijima

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

Production: Nikkatsu

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Falling Out (1967)

Summary: Sawaki is an old skool Yakuza hitman fresh from an eight-year stint in prison. On his release, this "man of men" reunites with his old gang companions, now disbanded, and witnesses how they have fallen away from the Yakuza code of...

Release Date: April 01, 1967

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Kinji Fukasaku

Writers: Kinji Fukasaku

, Isao Matsumoto

, Hideaki Yamamoto

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

Production: Toei Tokyo

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989)

Summary: Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents ...

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Hideo Gosha