Movies: Riichirō Manabe

  • 1973
    Godzilla vs. Megalon

    Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)

    Godzilla vs. Megalon

    6.21973HD

    Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet Jaguar as a guide, the Seatopians send Megalon as vengeance for the nuclear tests that have devastated the...

    Godzilla vs. Megalon
  • 1971
    Godzilla vs. Hedorah

    Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)

    Godzilla vs. Hedorah

    6.81971HD

    An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace....

    Godzilla vs. Hedorah
  • 1974
    Flower & Snake

    Flower & Snake (1974)

    Flower & Snake

    5.51974HD

    Shizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult toy store owner, to train his wife to become sexually submissive....

    Flower & Snake
  • 1974
    Evil of Dracula

    Evil of Dracula (1974)

    Evil of Dracula

    6.71974HD

    A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret....

    Evil of Dracula
  • 1971
    Lake of Dracula

    Lake of Dracula (1971)

    Lake of Dracula

    6.71971HD

    A young girl suffers a terrifying nightmare of a vampire with blazing golden eyes. Eighteen years later, it is revealed to be a hellish prophecy when a strange package containing an empty coffin mysteriously turns up at a nearby lake....

    Lake of Dracula
  • 1960
    The Sun's Burial

    The Sun's Burial (1960)

    The Sun's Burial

    6.41960HD

    In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's g...

    The Sun's Burial
  • 1960
    Cruel Story of Youth

    Cruel Story of Youth (1960)

    Cruel Story of Youth

    6.61960HD

    A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men....

    Cruel Story of Youth
  • 1979
    The Inferno

    The Inferno (1979)

    The Inferno

    7.21979HD

    Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave....

    The Inferno
  • 1979
    Taro the Dragon Boy

    Taro the Dragon Boy (1979)

    Taro the Dragon Boy

    6.51979HD

    Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a ...

    Taro the Dragon Boy
  • 1961
    A Wife Confesses

    A Wife Confesses (1961)

    A Wife Confesses

    6.71961HD

    Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession....

    A Wife Confesses
  • 1970
    The Vampire Doll

    The Vampire Doll (1970)

    The Vampire Doll

    6.81970HD

    A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history....

    The Vampire Doll
  • 1970
    The Militarists

    The Militarists (1970)

    The Militarists

    81970HD

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    The Militarists
  • 1972
    Love Hunter

    Love Hunter (1972)

    Love Hunter

    4.71972HD

    Kyōko is a woman with a promiscuous past who is sexually unsatisfied with her marriage. Her frustrations lead her to have hedonistic dreams, such as her mother and grandfather having sex together. Seeking to rejuvenate her marriage, she throws a wild...

    Love Hunter
  • 1960
    Night and Fog in Japan

    Night and Fog in Japan (1960)

    Night and Fog in Japan

    6.51960HD

    Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments....

    Night and Fog in Japan
  • 1956
    Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

    Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956)

    Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

    71956HD

    A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted ...

    Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
  • 1961
    Shōjo

    Shōjo (1961)

    Shōjo

    01961HD

    1961 Japanese movie...

    Shōjo
  • 1959
    Street of Love and Hope

    Street of Love and Hope (1959)

    Street of Love and Hope

    6.61959HD

    A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched after Masuo sells his pigeons to her. However, after his scam is revealed, can these feelings truly rema...

    Street of Love and Hope
  • 1977
    The Gate of Youth Part 2

    The Gate of Youth Part 2 (1977)

    The Gate of Youth Part 2

    81977HD

    Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....

    The Gate of Youth Part 2
  • 1956
    Our Town

    Our Town (1956)

    Our Town

    6.81956HD

    In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love w...

    Our Town
  • 1961
    The Catch

    The Catch (1961)

    The Catch

    6.31961HD

    Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”...

    The Catch