Drunken Angel (1948)
Movie
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a...
Ikiru (1952)
Movie
A middle-aged bureaucrat named Kanji Watanabe learns that he is terminally ill, prompting him to use...
Godzilla (1954)
Movie
A giant reptilian monster is awakened by nuclear testing, leading the creature to wreak havoc on...
Kaiju Gojira Daikaiju
Rashomon (1950)
Movie
A woodcutter, a priest, and a commoner take shelter during a storm, and the woodcutter recounts an...
Samurai Period film Unreliable narrator
Throne of Blood (1957)
Movie
A war-hardened commander named Washizu Taketoki, urged by his wife, sets out to fulfill a prophecy...
Spider Web Castle Samurai Macbeth
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Movie
Historical epic from Akira Kurosawa. Two peasants escort a man and woman through hostile territory...
Jidaigeki
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)
Movie
In this "Americanized" version of the 1954 Japanese film "Godzilla", an American reporter named...
Seven Samurai (1954)
Movie
In 1586, a poor village of farmers recruit seven unemployed samurai to defend themselves from...
Ronin
Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Movie
The giant monster Godzilla battles another colossal, prehistoric beast known as Anguirus, inflicting...
Gigantis the Fire Monster Godzilla's Counterattack Kaiju Tokusatsu Gojira Shōwa