Ishirō Honda Filmes

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...

A 1944 propaganda film that depicts the fictionalised career of IJAAF pilot Tateo Kato, who led the 64th Sentai during the early months of the...

The fairies from Infant Island discover a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

An Ishiro Honda film.

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and...

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

An Ishiro Honda film.

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his...

A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.

An Ishiro Honda film.