1951 film by Kon Ichikawa

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.

The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corporate social ladder. His cold-blooded ascent eventually leads to moral decay as his past actions begin to catch up with him.

三島由紀夫の同名ベストセラー小説の映画化。

SINCERE HEART (1953, aka MAGOKORO) was Masaki Kobayashi's second film as a director -- but as with his first, YOUTH OF THE SON, it is something of a hybrid work, influenced heavily by his longtime mentor Keisuke Kinoshita, who wrote the screenplay. The resulting film is a deeply passionate and sentimental drama about a young student (Akira Inshihama) who falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to an invalid girl (Keiko Awaji) whom he can only see from afar.

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.

昭和24年（公元1949年8月17日）拂晓，日本福岛县松川站附近，发生了列车出轨翻车的事故。这就是日本反动派为迫害进步工人、打击工会、诬陷共产党而制造的“松川事件”。事件发生后，吉田政府立即按照它的阴谋计划于同年9月10日逮捕了当时才19岁的赤间胜美，在福岛警察署的扣留房里，赤间胜美在警官玉田的威逼下，招供了一份捏造的“赤间供状”。 于是，在同年9月22日、10月4日、10月17日、10月21日，先后四次逮捕了日本铁路工会干部和爱国工人高桥晴雄、佐藤一、杉浦三郎、太田省次、二阶堂园子、武田久等19名无辜被告，给他们扣上共谋颠覆列车的罪名。同年12月5日，进行了第一次审判。在法庭上，赤间胜美勇敢地说出了供词是在警察的威吓下招供的，自己根本没有参与“松川事件”，19名被告也都是冤枉的。 接着，被告高桥晴雄、本田升、滨崎二雄、佐藤一、律师冈林等都根据事实的真相，有力地揭露了这一事件的阴谋。但是，1950年2月13日，法庭仍然做出了奇怪的决定，把被告赤间和其他19名被告隔离了，并把赤间作为检察官的证人进行讯问，这一决定遭到正义律师们和全体被告一致强烈的反对，并在法庭上与山田律师和审判长的颠倒黑白的无理训问展开了激烈的斗争。同年12月5日，福岛地方法院第一次非法判决铃木信等五人死刑，二宫丰等五人无期徒刑，斋藤千等十人长期徒刑。这一非法判决激起了日本广大人民的愤怒，更激起了全体被告斗争的决心，他们在坚持真理的共同斗争中越来越坚强了。 迫于日本人民的愤怒抗议，日本仙台高等法院在1953年12月22日做出了第二次判决，但他们依旧不顾铁一般的事实，判决了四人死刑、二人无期徒刑、十一人长期徒刑，仅仅宣告三人无罪。宣判的当天，几百名武装警察出动担任警戒，美国宪兵的吉普车在法院周围的大街上横冲直撞，美国飞机在天空盘旋，但任何威胁也阻止不了人民更为愤怒的抗议，日本共产党、工人阶级与各阶层的进步人士都为此展开了坚决的斗争，支援这一正义斗争的人也越来越多。日美反动派——“松川事件”的阴谋策划者，必须在如山的铁证面前进行公正的裁判，释放无辜被告，逮捕真正的罪犯，为遇难的日本人民偿命，最后的胜利一定属于日本人民。

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works.

若き弁護士・浜野は、恩師・宗方弁護士の年若い妻・靖江と不倫関係にあったが、ある事情から靖江を絞殺する。ところが宗方邸の近くをうろついていた前科4犯の男・脇田が宗方邸から盗んだ宝石を所持していたことから、靖江殺しの容疑者として緊急逮捕される。 脇田は、盗みは認めたものの殺人については否認したため検察の尋問は数日に渡る。しかし、担当検事・落合のしぶとい追及に脇田は殺害を自供し、事件は決着を見る。 一方、妻を殺された宗方弁護士は死刑廃止論者としての信念から敢えて脇田の弁護を担当する。そして、その助手を務めることになった浜野は良心の呵責から必要以上に脇田の無罪を主張する。その浜野の言動に不審を抱いた落合は、秘密裏に補充捜査を開始する。

In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover Varan, a giant monster, who decides to leave the valley and head straight for Tokyo.

1970 American-Japanese war film

1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa