Movies: Shōichi Hirose

  • 1971
    The Battle of Okinawa

    The Battle of Okinawa (1971)

    The Battle of Okinawa

    7.51971HD

    The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army divisions to defend it at all costs. The mission quickly degenerates as vital resources and troops a...

    The Battle of Okinawa
  • 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
  • 1964
    Dogora

    Dogora (1964)

    Dogora

    6.81964HD

    A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds....

    Dogora
  • 1966
    The War of the Gargantuas

    The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

    The War of the Gargantuas

    6.41966HD

    Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira's Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin....

    The War of the Gargantuas
  • 1959
    Gigantis, the Fire Monster

    Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959)

    Gigantis, the Fire Monster

    6.31959HD

    A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus....

    Gigantis, the Fire Monster
  • 1953
    The Eagle of the Pacific

    The Eagle of the Pacific (1953)

    The Eagle of the Pacific

    7.81953HD

    Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to...

    The Eagle of the Pacific
  • 1958
    Varan

    Varan (1958)

    Varan

    5.81958HD

    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....

    Varan
  • 1959
    The Big Boss

    The Big Boss (1959)

    The Big Boss

    6.31959HD

    Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, hoping to become a successful singer instead. Ryuta loves his brother, but Mineo's possible defection pres...

    The Big Boss
  • 1962
    Varan the Unbelievable

    Varan the Unbelievable (1962)

    Varan the Unbelievable

    4.21962HD

    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 ...

    Varan the Unbelievable
  • 1958
    The H-Man

    The H-Man (1958)

    The H-Man

    5.81958HD

    Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime....

    The H-Man
  • 1957
    The Mysterians

    The Mysterians (1957)

    The Mysterians

    6.41957HD

    In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to storm the city by night, after which they request a small patch of land on Earth and the right to mar...

    The Mysterians
  • 1965
    The Retreat from Kiska

    The Retreat from Kiska (1965)

    The Retreat from Kiska

    8.51965HD

    In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuation...

    The Retreat from Kiska
  • 1958
    Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

    Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1958)

    Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman

    3.21958HD

    An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a skiers shelter following a...

    Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
  • 1959
    The Three Treasures

    The Three Treasures (1959)

    The Three Treasures

    5.41959HD

    The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he h...

    The Three Treasures
  • 1963
    Young Swordsman

    Young Swordsman (1963)

    Young Swordsman

    6.51963HD

    This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustr...

    Young Swordsman
  • 1952
    Tokyo Sweetheart

    Tokyo Sweetheart (1952)

    Tokyo Sweetheart

    71952HD

    Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to fi...

    Tokyo Sweetheart
  • 1966
    The Daphne

    The Daphne (1966)

    The Daphne

    01966HD

    Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her brother try various schemes to find husbands for them....

    The Daphne
  • 1956
    裸足の青春

    裸足の青春 (1956)

    裸足の青春

    01956HD

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    裸足の青春
  • 1979
    The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

    The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979)

    The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

    6.41979HD

    Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new c...

    The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi