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Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects (2008)

Summary: A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition hand made special effects alive. Highlighted is Yasuyuki Inoue along with various other crew members who crafted meticulously de...

Release Date: August 03, 2008

Genre: Documentary

Director: Norman England

Writers: Ed Godziszewski

, Steve Ryfle

Runtime: 1 h 09 min

Production: Toho Company, Classic Media, Happy Enterprises Productions

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 148,915

Monkey (1978)

Summary: An adaptation of a Chinese folktale about a pilgrimage to the West undertaken by a monk and his divine guardians.

Release Date: October 01, 1978

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Production: Kokusai Hoei, Nippon Television Network (NTV)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

Summary: The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.

Release Date: October 29, 1970

Genre: Drama

Director: Toshio Matsumoto

Writer: Toshio Matsumoto

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Art Theatre Guild (ATG), Matsumoto Production Company

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Summary: In 1999, a race of she-aliens, the Kilaaks, brainwash Earth's monsters into attacking major cities, prompting a team of astronauts to stop the invaders while the monsters battle Ghidorah.

Release Date: May 28, 1969

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

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

Kill! (1968)

Summary: Two ronin - an ex-samurai and an ex-farmer - get caught up in a local official's complex game of murder and betrayal.

Release Date: June 22, 1968

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama

Director: Kihachi Okamoto

Writers: Kihachi Okamoto

, Akira Murao

, Shûgorô Yamamoto

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Frank Lee International

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Son of Godzilla (1967)

Summary: A reporter stumbles upon weather experiments on a tropical island, discovering giant mantises, a castaway woman, and an infant monster that Godzilla must adopt as his own.

Release Date: December 16, 1967

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Jun Fukuda

Writers: Shin'ichi Sekizawa

, Kazue Shiba

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 900,000

Ultraman: A Special Effects Fantasy Series (1966)

Summary: A human member of a defense force is given the life and ability to change into a giant super-hero to battle the monsters that wreaks havoc on Earth.

Release Date: July 10, 1966

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Tsuburaya Productions

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

Summary: Astronauts encounter the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save them from "Monster Zero", but when one of the astronaut romances a mysterious woman, he uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.

Release Date: July 29, 1970

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writer: Shin'ichi Sekizawa

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: G

Production: Toho Company, United Productions of America (UPA)

Distributor: Maron Films, Simitar Entertainment, Essex Pictures Company, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Red Beard (1965)

Summary: In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.

Release Date: December 19, 1968

Genre: Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Masato Ide

, Hideo Oguni

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 3 h 05 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Toho Company, Toho

Distributor: Toho, Frank Lee International

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 4,643

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)

Summary: An American scientist and his Japanese colleagues study a feral boy born from the radiated heart of Frankenstein's monster, while a subterranean dinosaur ravages the Japanese countryside.

Release Date: August 08, 1965

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Reuben Bercovitch

, Takeshi Kimura

, John Meredyth Lucas

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Henry G. Saperstein Enterprises Inc., Toho Company, Toho

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

High and Low (1963)

Summary: An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

Release Date: November 26, 1963

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Ryûzô Kikushima

, Eijirô Hisaita

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Toho Company

Distributor: East West Classics, Continental Distributing, Pacific Arts Video, The Criterion Collection, Cowboy Pictures, Janus Films, Walter Reade-Sterling, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 230,000,000

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 6,120

Matango (1963)

Summary: Shipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.

Release Date: August 11, 1963

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Takeshi Kimura

, Shin'ichi Hoshi

, Masami Fukushima

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Toho Company, Toho

Distributor: American-International Television (AIP-TV)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Sanjuro (1962)

Summary: A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Release Date: May 07, 1963

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryûzô Kikushima

, Hideo Oguni

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co.

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 8,720

Yojimbo (1961)

Summary: A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Release Date: April 25, 1961

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: G

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Sammy, Toho Company

Distributor: Janus Films, Seneca Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 18,111

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Summary: A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

Release Date: January 22, 1963

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Eijirô Hisaita

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 2 h 31 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co., Toho

Distributor: Toho, Sony Video, Cowboy Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 82,540,000

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 153

Battle in Outer Space (1959)

Summary: The nations of the Earth unite in a common cause to fight off an invader from outer space.

Release Date: July 08, 1960

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Shin'ichi Sekizawa

, Jôjirô Okami

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Toho Company, Toho

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Summary: Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.

Release Date: October 06, 1960

Genres: Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Ryûzô Kikushima

, Hideo Oguni

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Albex, Cowboy Pictures, Media Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: English

Domestic: $ 46,808

Throne of Blood (1957)

Summary: A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

Release Date: November 22, 1961

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Hideo Oguni

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Ryûzô Kikushima

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Kurosawa Production Co.

Distributor: Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Media Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 46,808

International: $ 12,739

The Mysterians (1957)

Summary: Shortly after a giant robot destroys a village, aliens from outer space arrive offering friendship. Will the people of Earth tie these two events together?

Release Date: May 15, 1959

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Takeshi Kimura

, Jôjirô Okami

, Shigeru Kayama

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Toho Company, Toho

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 975,000

Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

Summary: Scout pilots for a fishing company are startled to discover a second Godzilla, whose battle with rival monster Anguirus threatens to destroy Osaka.

Release Date: May 21, 1959

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Directors: Motoyoshi Oda

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Takeo Murata

, Shigeaki Hidaka

, Shigeru Kayama

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Toho Company, Toho

Distributor: Toho, Warner Bros.

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 800,000

Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects (2008)

Monkey (1978)

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Kill! (1968)

Son of Godzilla (1967)

Ultraman: A Special Effects Fantasy Series (1966)

Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

Red Beard (1965)

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)

High and Low (1963)

Matango (1963)

Sanjuro (1962)

Yojimbo (1961)

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

Battle in Outer Space (1959)

The Hidden Fortress (1958)

Throne of Blood (1957)

The Mysterians (1957)

Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

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