The Thick-Walled Room

1956

Japanese

7.1

♡ 4

60%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

crime against humanity

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Takeshi Katô as

Shinichirô Minami as

Unpei Yokoyama as

Kô Mishima as Yokota

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

The Bad Sleep Well

1960

Japanese

8.0

♡ 24

100%

parent child relationship

Thriller

wedding

Akira Kurosawa Director

Kunie Tanaka as Hitman

Takeshi Katô as Itakura

Toshirô Mifune as Kôichi Nishi

Masayuki Mori as Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

Police Tactics

1974

Japanese

7.3

♡ 5

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Takeshi Katô as

Mizuho Suzuki as

Tatsuo Endô as Aihara

Nobuo Kaneko as Yamamori

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

Only on Mondays

1964

Japanese

6.7

♡ 1

Action

Drama

Kô Nakahira Director

Takeshi Yoshida as

Harold Conway as Minister

Mariko Kaga as Yuka

Takeshi Katô as Yuka's sugar-daddy

Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.

The Return of Godzilla

1984

Japanese

6.8

♡ 8

88%

Toshio Masuda Director

Nobuo Kaneko as Home Affairs Minister Isomura

Yôsuke Natsuki as Professor Makoto Hayashida

Takashi Ebata as Ship Captain

Takeshi Katô as Trade Minister

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

Godzilla 1985

1985

Japanese

6.1

♡ 9

27%

R.J. Kizer Director

Yôsuke Natsuki as Dr. Hayashida

Warren J. Kemmerling as General Goodhoe

Nobuo Kaneko as Home Affairs Minister Isomura

Takeshi Katô as Trade Minister

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.

Seven Samurai

1954

Japanese

8.6

♡ 215

100%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Yoshio Inaba as Gorobei Katayama

Toshirô Mifune as Kikuchiyo

Takeshi Katô as Samurai Wandering Through Town

Eijirô Tôno as Thief

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

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The Thick-Walled Room

The Bad Sleep Well

Police Tactics

Only on Mondays

The Return of Godzilla

Godzilla 1985

Seven Samurai