Known for Sound
Born
December 13, 1912
Died
January 1, 1998 (age 85)
Birthplace
Kumamoto, Japan
Filmography
153 films


Destroy All Monsters
1968 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens known as the Kilaaks unleash the monsters across the world.


Kill!
1968 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.


Two in the Shadow
1967 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.


Las Vegas Free-For-All
1967 · 2h 37m
country: Japan
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing with the seven Cats were the lovely Mie Hama and such Japanese musical artists as The Peanuts, The Johnnys, The Drifters, and Jackie Yoshikawa & the Blue Comets.


It Started In The Alps
1966 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa.


The Sword of Doom
1966 · 2h 2m
country: Japan
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.


The Stranger Within a Woman
1966 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is racked with guilt and confesses to his wife, Masako. In an effort to further relieve his tortured sense of guilt, he then confesses to Sugimoto. Neither his wife nor his friend can believe that he could have been involved.


Yearning
1964 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.


Siege of Fort Bismarck
1963 · 1h 38m
country: Japan


Warring Clans
1963 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been smuggling arms to the enemy. The remaining samurai try in vain to coerce him back, but their efforts are thwarted by crooked warriors who launch an attack...


A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 · 2h 4m
country: Japan
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.


Me and Me
1962 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs. Godzilla.


The Wiser Age
1962 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.


The Witness Killed
1961 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda


The Masterless 47
1960 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Part one of The Masterless 47.


Get 'em All
1960 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.


The Angry Sea
1960 · 2h 5m
country: Japan
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.


The Dangerous Kiss
1960 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.


Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers
1959 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
An Ishiro Honda film.


The Beast Shall Die
1959 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man.


3 Dolls in College
1959 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University, balance studying for the final exams while falling for the new French professor.


Chakkiri Kinta
1958 · 1h 12m
country: Japan