Ishirō Honda — Director (26)
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.
The Human Vapor (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ガス人間第一号
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Yoshio Tsuchiya / Kaoru Yachigusa
other title: Una nube di terrore / ガス人間第一号
A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's career, killing those who interfere. Now Tokyo's most wanted criminal, can authorities stop him?
Gorath (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
妖星ゴラス
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yumi Shirakawa
other title: Ufos zerstören die Erde / Le Choc des planètes
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 enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
Godzilla (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Godzilla
director: Luigi Cozzi / Ishirō Honda actor: Raymond Burr / Akira Takarada
Mentre Tokyo è ormai ridotta ad un cumulo di macerie, Steve Martin, giornalista americano del United World News, racconta di come la città è stata attaccata da una mostruosa creatura. Il racconto poi torna al presente e segue le operazioni che conducono alla distruzione di Godzilla, sconfitto grazie all'intervento del professor Serizawa, vecchio amico di Steve.
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
director: Ishirō Honda / Kenneth G. Crane actor: John Carradine / Momoko Kôchi
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a skiers shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film "Jūjin Yuki Otoko" (1955) with added American-made footage, narration, and music.