Movies: Shōichi Hirose

  • 1954
    Seven Samurai

    Seven Samurai (1954)

    Seven Samurai

    8.51954HD

    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...

    Seven Samurai
  • 1952
    Ikiru

    Ikiru (1952)

    Ikiru

    8.31952HD

    Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life....

    Ikiru
  • 1961
    Yojimbo

    Yojimbo (1961)

    Yojimbo

    8.01961HD

    A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemo...

    Yojimbo
  • 1962
    Sanjuro

    Sanjuro (1962)

    Sanjuro

    7.91962HD

    Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out thei...

    Sanjuro
  • 1962
    King Kong vs. Godzilla

    King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

    King Kong vs. Godzilla

    6.81962HD

    The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges...

    King Kong vs. Godzilla
  • 1958
    The Hidden Fortress

    The Hidden Fortress (1958)

    The Hidden Fortress

    81958HD

    In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains....

    The Hidden Fortress
  • 1956
    Rodan

    Rodan (1956)

    Rodan

    6.51956HD

    Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more hor...

    Rodan
  • 1965
    Red Beard

    Red Beard (1965)

    Red Beard

    8.11965HD

    Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Re...

    Red Beard
  • 1955
    Godzilla Raids Again

    Godzilla Raids Again (1955)

    Godzilla Raids Again

    5.91955HD

    Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon that killed the original, authorities attempt to lure Godzilla away from the mainland. But Anguirus ...

    Godzilla Raids Again
  • 1965
    Invasion of Astro-Monster

    Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

    Invasion of Astro-Monster

    6.81965HD

    Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for canc...

    Invasion of Astro-Monster
  • 1961
    Mothra

    Mothra (1961)

    Mothra

    7.11961HD

    Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. Aft...

    Mothra
  • 1965
    Frankenstein Conquers the World

    Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)

    Frankenstein Conquers the World

    6.61965HD

    During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic b...

    Frankenstein Conquers the World
  • 1973
    Lady Snowblood

    Lady Snowblood (1973)

    Lady Snowblood

    7.51973HD

    Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She crea...

    Lady Snowblood
  • 1967
    King Kong Escapes

    King Kong Escapes (1967)

    King Kong Escapes

    6.21967HD

    An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a...

    King Kong Escapes
  • 1966
    Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

    Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)

    Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

    6.31966HD

    Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a cru...

    Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
  • 1975
    Terror of Mechagodzilla

    Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

    Terror of Mechagodzilla

    6.91975HD

    A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads biologist Ichinose to uncover the work of Dr. Mafune and his mysterious daughter Katsura. Aligned wit...

    Terror of Mechagodzilla
  • 1977
    House

    House (1977)

    House

    7.31977HD

    Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She invites her six friends, Prof, Melody, Mac, Fantasy, Kung Fu, and Sweet, to join her. The girls soon dis...

    House
  • 1974
    Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

    Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)

    Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

    6.41974HD

    Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries....

    Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
  • 1964
    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

    71964HD

    After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat....

    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
  • 1963
    Atragon

    Atragon (1963)

    Atragon

    6.41963HD

    The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defe...

    Atragon