Ishirō Honda — Playwright (12)
The Blue Pearl (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
青い眞珠
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yukiko Shimazaki
other title: 青い眞珠
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.
The Skin of the South (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
南国の肌
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Hajime Izu / Yasuko Fujita
other title: 南国の肌 / Nangoku no hada
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course.
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.
The War of the Gargantuas (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Kenji Sahara / Kumi Mizuno
other title: Kong, uragano sulla metropoli / Frankenstein - Zweikampf der Giganten
Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira's Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A battle between good and evil ensues, leaving brothers divided and a city in ruins.
Destroy All Monsters (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
怪獣総進撃
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Akira Kubo / Jun Tazaki
other title: Gli eredi di King Kong / Frankenstein und die Monster aus dem All
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
director: Terry O. Morse / Ishirō Honda actor: Raymond Burr / Takashi Shimura
other title: Godzilla / Godzilla - König der Monster
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
Godzilla (1954) [Movie] KevGa-NeoDB TMDB NeoDB IMDb Bangumi Douban Skybridge WikiData
ゴジラ
8.4 (8 ratings) director: Ishirō Honda actor: Akira Takarada / Momoko Kôchi
other title: O Monstro do Oceano Pacífico / Godzilla, Japón bajo el terror del monstruo
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
Madadayo (1993) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
まあだだよ
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Tatsuo Matsumura / Kyōko Kagawa
other title: Madadayo - Il compleanno / まあだだよ
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.
Rhapsody in August (1991) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
八月の狂詩曲
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Sachiko Murase / Hidetaka Yoshioka
other title: Rapsodia in agosto / 八月の狂詩曲
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.