Sort by:

Title
Date
Random
Cast type
Rating
Ratings
ZR Aggregate Rating
IMDb
Metacritic MetaScore
Metacritic UserScore
Metacritic % Gap
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes Audience
Rotten Tomatoes % Gap
ZR User Score
ZR Critics (beta)
Global Ratings
Douban
Eiga
Kinopoisk
MovieMeter
OFDb
Popularity
Most Talked About
Popularity Total
IMDb
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes Audience
ZR Critics
ZR User Score
4chan
Global Popularity
Douban
Eiga
Kinopoisk
MovieMeter
OFDb
Wokeness
Family Friendly Score
ZR Woke Meter
Forced Diversity
"Diversity" %
Female %
Literal Diversity
Possibly Woke
Review Sites
BechdelTest
Audience Warnings
Finances
Budget
Profit
Worldwide Box Office
International Box Office
Domestic Box Office

King Kong Escapes (1967)

Summary: The evil Dr. Who captures King Kong to dig for Element X when his robot duplicate, Mechani-Kong, is unable to do the job, but Kong soon escapes and battles his doppelganger.

Release Date: June 19, 1968

Genres: Action, Adventure, Family

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Takeshi Kimura

, Edgar Wallace

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: G

Production: Rankin/Bass Productions, Toho Company

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,180,000

Ikiru (1952)

Summary: A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Release Date: March 25, 1956

Genre: Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Brandon Films, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Heron International Company, Media Home Entertainment, Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Image Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 60,239

International: $ 36,680

Godzilla 1985

Summary: Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.

Release Date: August 23, 1985

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Directors: Koji Hashimoto

, R.J. Kizer

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Reuben Bercovitch

, Fred Dekker

, Akira Murao

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Toho Company, Toho Eizo Co.

Distributor: R&G Video, Starmaker Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Warner Bros., Section 23 Films, New World Video

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Franchise: Godzilla

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,116,395

Dreams (1990)

Summary: A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.

Release Date: August 24, 1990

Genres: Drama, Fantasy

Directors: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Akira Kurosawa USA

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,963,207

International: $ 1,006,954

Rhapsody in August (1991)

Summary: Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

Release Date: December 20, 1991

Genre: Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Kiyoko Murata

, Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Feature Film Enterprise II, Kurosawa Production Co., Shochiku

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 516,431

International: $ 1,107

Mothra (1961)

Summary: An expedition to Infant Island discovers a native population and tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity. Named Mothra, she sets out to rescue her fairies after they are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman.

Release Date: May 10, 1962

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Shin'ichi Sekizawa

, Shin'ichirô Nakamura

, Takehiko Fukunaga

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, GoodTimes Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Television, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Seven Samurai (1954)

Summary: Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.

Release Date: November 19, 1956

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 3 h 27 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Kingsley-International Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Embassy Pictures, Films Incorporated, Janus Films, Landmark Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Cowboy Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 125,000,000

Domestic: $ 318,649

International: $ 27,609

Godzilla (1954)

Summary: American nuclear-weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast.

Release Date: May 07, 2004

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Ishirô Honda

Writers: Takeo Murata

, Ishirô Honda

, Shigeru Kayama

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd., Walt Disney Productions

Distributor: Vestron Video, Zontarian Video, Rialto Pictures, Classic Media, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Sony Wonder, Janus Films, Genius Entertainment, Genius Products, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Franchise: Godzilla

Movie budget: $ 175,000

Domestic: $ 562,711

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

King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963)

Summary: A UN reporter covers the appearance of a prehistoric monster that emerges from hibernation, while a pharmaceutical company seeks publicity with a monster of their own.

Release Date: June 26, 1963

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Directors: Ishirô Honda

, Tom Montgomery

Writers: Shin'ichi Sekizawa

, Paul Mason

, Bruce Howard

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Toho Company, John Beck, RKO General Pictures, Toho, Universal Pictures International (UPI)

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Filmauro Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Pictures International (UPI), GoodTimes Home Video, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 200,000

Madadayo (1993)

Summary: Following World War II, a retired professor approaching his autumn years finds his quality of life drastically reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with his adoring students.

Release Date: April 17, 1993

Genre: Drama

Directors: Akira Kurosawa

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Ishirô Honda

, Akira Kurosawa

, Hyakken Uchida

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

Production: DENTSU Music And Entertainment, Daiei, Kurosawa Production Co.

Distributor: Genius Products, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, The Miriam Collection, The Weinstein Company, WinStar Cinema

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 11,900,000

Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956)

Summary: A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.

Release Date: April 27, 1956

Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Directors: Ishirô Honda

, Terry O. Morse

Writers: Shigeru Kayama

, Takeo Murata

, Ishirô Honda

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Jewell Enterprises Inc.

Distributor: Embassy Pictures, TransWorld Releasing Corp., Vestron Video, Paramount Gateway Video, Paramount Home Entertainment, GoodTimes Home Video, Zontarian Video, Simitar Entertainment, Classic Media, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Anderson Digital, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 650,000

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

Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)

Summary: An ever-evolving alien life form from the Dark Gaseous Nebula arrives to consume rampant pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity or Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.

Release Date: February 11, 1972

Genres: Action, Family, Animation, Anime

Directors: Yoshimitsu Banno

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Yoshimitsu Banno

, Takeshi Kimura

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: American-International Television (AIP-TV), Image Entertainment, Orion Home Video, Simitar Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)

Summary: Japan creates an artificial black hole device to trap Godzilla forever, but a test of the device creates new foes for Godzilla, car-sized dragonflies called meganula and their queen, Megaguirus.

Release Date: December 16, 2000

Genres: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Directors: Masaaki Tezuka

, Ishirô Honda

Writers: Hiroshi Kashiwabara

, Wataru Mimura

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: The Sci-Fi Channel

Country: Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,300,000

The Return of Godzilla (1984)

Summary: The Japanese government suppresses the horrifying news of Godzilla's resurrection as political tensions increase between the United States and Soviet Union, both of whom are willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Release Date: December 15, 1984

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi

Directors: Koji Hashimoto

, Toshio Masuda

, Shûe Matsubayashi

Writers: Fred Dekker

, Akira Murao

, Hideichi Nagahara

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

Production: Toho Eizo Co., Toho, Toho Company

Distributor: Universum-Film GmbH, New World Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 6,250,000

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)

Summary: Four men searching for one's brother are shipwrecked on Letchi Island, where a terrorist organization developing nuclear weapons have enslaved the natives of Infant Island and command monstrous crustacean named Ebirah.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Jun Fukuda

Writer: Shin'ichi Sekizawa

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Walter Reade Organization, Continental Distributing, Film Ventures International (FVI), HBO Max, Kraken Releasing, Section 23 Films, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sterling Educational Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

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