Shinichi Sekizawa — Playwright (32)
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Tokyo Profile (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
都会の横顔
director: Hiroshi Shimizu actor: Ryō Ikebe / Ineko Arima …
other title: Le Profil de la ville / 都会の横顔
A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the crowded streets of Ginza.
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The Mad Atlantic (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
怒涛一万浬
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tatsuya Mihashi …
other title: 怒涛一万浬 / 10,000 Miles of Stormy Seas …
Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they ever have, creating enmity and exhaustion. Just when the ship has taken a huge catch of tuna in its nets, Murakami learns that his ship is the only one in position to rescue the crew of another ship, sinking in a storm. He must choose between saving the catch or saving lives. Either choice may mean his ruin.
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The Big Boss (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
暗黒街の顔役
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Koji Tsuruta / Seizaburō Kawazu …
other title: 暗黒街の顔役 / Ombres dans la nuit
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
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Blueprint of Murder (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
暗黒街の弾痕
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūzō Kayama / Makoto Satō …
other title: 暗黒街の弾痕
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.
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The Killing Bottle (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
国際秘密警察　絶体絶命
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Nick Adams …
other title: 国際秘密警察　絶体絶命
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of Buddhabal. ISP Agents Carter and Kitami are assigned to the case. When the Prime Minister arrives in Tokyo for a friendship visit, Carter and Kitami are on hand to protect him. On hand, too, are assorted ZZZ blackguards. Several attempts on the Prime Minister's life fail, until finally the ZZZ introduces a new device designed to eliminate not only the Prime Minister but the ISP Agents as well: THE KILLING BOTTLE, then, is a pocket-sized container filled with a substance that can expand to thousands of times its size and throttle its victim, then disappear leaving only the corpse.
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Varan the Unbelievable (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Varan the Unbelievable
director: Jerry A. Baerwitz / Ishirō Honda actor: Myron Healey / Tsuruko Kobayashi …
other title: Varan, das Monster aus der Urzeit / Varan, le monstre géant
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
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Latitude Zero (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
緯度0大作戦
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Joseph Cotten / Cesar Romero …
other title: Latitudine Zero / U 4000 - Panik unter dem Ozean …
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.
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Varan (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
大怪獣バラン
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Kōzō Nomura / Ayumi Sonoda …
other title: Varan - Das Monster aus der Urzeit / Varan, le monstre géant …
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.
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A Keg of Powder (1964) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
国際秘密警察　火薬の樽
director: Takashi Tsuboshima actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Makoto Satō …
other title: 国際秘密警察　火薬の樽 / International Secret Police -Keg of Gunpowder
In the third installment in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series, agent Jiro Kitami investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent scientist. Edited into Woody Allen's "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" along with the 4th film in the series, "Key of Keys".
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Samurai Pirate (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
大盗賊
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Toshirō Mifune / Mie Hama …
other title: Der Löwe des gelben Meeres / Le Défi des géants …
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.
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Dogora (1964) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
宇宙大怪獣ドゴラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Robert Dunham / Yōsuke Natsuki …
other title: Dogora il mostro della grande palude / X 3000 - Fantome gegen Gangster …
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
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All Monsters Attack (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
ゴジラ・ミニラ・ガバラ オール怪獣大進撃
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Tomonori Yazaki / Hideyo Amamoto …
other title: La vendetta di Godzilla / Godzilla: Attack All Monsters …
Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolboy alone. Constantly teased by a bully nicknamed Gabara, his only friends are toy consultant Shinpei and fellow classmate Sachiko. Ichiro turns to escapist dreams of Monster Island where he befriends the equally bullied Minilla.
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Tomboy Samurai (1958) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
女ざむらい只今参上
director: Kunio Watanabe actor: Hibari Misora / Jun Tazaki …
other title: 女ざむらい只今参上
The beautiful daughter of a merchant with a penchant for danger proves to be too much to handle for her worried father. Disguising herself as a man and changing her name, she heads for the capital...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ　南海の大決闘
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Akira Takarada / Kumi Mizuno …
other title: Il ritorno di Godzilla / Frankenstein und die Ungeheuer aus dem Meer …
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
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Battle in Outer Space (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
宇宙大戦争
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Koreya Senda / Ryō Ikebe …
other title: Inferno nella stratosfera / Krieg im Weltenraum …
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.