Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Summary: The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

Release Date: September 23, 1970

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Directors: Richard Fleischer

, Kinji Fukasaku

, Toshio Masuda

Writers: Larry Forrester

, Hideo Oguni

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: G

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Elmo Williams, Richard Fleischer

Distributor: CBS, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Summary: At the end of the 20th century, all of Earth's monsters have been safely rounded up and sent to Monsterland for scientific study. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleashes the monsters on the world.

Release Date: May 28, 1969

Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror

Directors: Ishirô Honda

, Jun Fukuda

Writers: Ishirô Honda

, Takeshi Kimura

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: G

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP), American-International Television (AIP-TV), ADV Films, Media Blasters, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000,000

King Kong Escapes (1967)

Summary: Inspired by the Rankin/Bass cartoon, the evil Dr. Who captures King Kong to dig for Element X when his mechanical doppelganger, Mechani-Kong, is unable to do the task. Kong escapes and soon confronts his mechanical double.

Release Date: June 19, 1968

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Director: Ishirô Honda