The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama Read More »
Tag Archives: Ishirô Honda
King Kong vs. Godzilla / Kingu Kongu tai Gojira (1963) Ishirô Honda, Tom Montgomery, Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara, Yû Fujiki
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island Read More »
War-Gods of the Deep (1965) Jacques Tourneur, Ishirô Honda, Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson
Set on the Cornish coast in 1903, the film features a group of people discovering Read More »
Godzilla’s Revenge / Gojira-Minira-Gabara: Oru kaijû daishingeki (1969) Ishirô Honda, Kenji Sahara, Machiko Naka, Tomonori Yazaki
Ichiro is a highly imaginative, but lonely, boy growing up in urban Tokyo. Read More »
Eagle of the Pacific (1953) Taiheiyô no washi
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician Read More »
Battle in Outer Space / Uchû sai sensô (1959) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Kyôko Anzai, Minoru Takada
Munchkin-like aliens invade Earth full force with their flying saucers and laser weapons, rendering cities helpless. Read More »
Godzilla AKA Gojira (1954) Ishirô Honda, Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada
When seventeen vessels blow-up and sink nearby Odo Island, Professor Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko Yamane Read More »
The First Gas Human AKA Gasu ningen dai 1 gô (1960) Ishirô Honda, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kaoru Yachigusa, Yoshio Tsuchiya
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into ‘The Human Vapour’. Read More »
Atragon AKA Kaitei gunkan (1963) Ishirô Honda, Tadao Takashima, Yôko Fujiyama, Yû Fujiki
Several strange occurrences are taking place all over the world including the disappearance of two engineers. Read More »
Dogora (1964) Ishirô Honda, Yôsuke Natsuki, Yôko Fujiyama, Hiroshi Koizumi
Several satellites have been destroyed without explanation. Read More »
The Mysterians (1957) Ishirô Honda, Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi
Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. Read More »
Attack of the Mushroom People (1963) Ishirô Honda, Akira Kubo, Kumi Mizuno, Hiroshi Koizumi
A group of pleasure-seeking young people are stranded on a mysterious island when their boat crashes. Read More »
Gorath (1962) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Yumi Shirakawa, Akira Kubo
In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Read More »
Saraba Rabauru / Farewell Rabaul (1954) Ishirô Honda, Ryô Ikebe, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni, War, Romance
This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question “What is war?”, showing the human bonds between Japan and America Read More »
Yume / Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990) Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda, Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi, Drama, Fantasy
Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved director’s own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a visually sumptuous journey through the master’s imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes. Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams is both a showcase for its maker’s artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance.
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