Shinichi Sekizawa — Playwright (35)
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The Killing Bottle (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
国際秘密警察　絶体絶命
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Tatsuya Mihashi / Nick Adams …
other title: 国際秘密警察　絶体絶命 / 国際秘密警察 絶体絶命
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of Buddhabal. ISP Agents Carter and Kitami are assigned to the case. When the Prime Minister arrives in Tokyo for a friendship visit, Carter and Kitami are on hand to protect him. On hand, too, are assorted ZZZ blackguards. Several attempts on the Prime Minister's life fail, until finally the ZZZ introduces a new device designed to eliminate not only the Prime Minister but the ISP Agents as well: THE KILLING BOTTLE, then, is a pocket-sized container filled with a substance that can expand to thousands of times its size and throttle its victim, then disappear leaving only the corpse.
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Samurai Pirate (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
大盗賊
director: Senkichi Taniguchi actor: Toshirō Mifune / Mie Hama …
other title: 大盗賊 / Der Löwe des gelben Meeres …
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.
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Varan the Unbelievable (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Varan the Unbelievable
director: Jerry A. Baerwitz / 本多猪四郎 actor: Myron Healey / Tsuruko Kobayashi …
other title: 大怪獣バラン / Varan, das Monster aus der Urzeit …
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 monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's bottom, and it proceeds to attack Japan. Although made by a U.S. independent film company, this film was based on a Japanese Toho monster film of 1958, "Daikaiju Varan", from which all of the monster effects scenes and a few incidental dramatic shots were edited into it.
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Mighty Jack (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
マイティジャック
director: 満田かずほ actor: 二谷英明 / 久保菜穗子 …
other title: マイティジャック
The organization Mighty Jack is formed to combat the criminal syndicate known as "Q", and are given a large array of advanced weapons, chief among them being a high-tech submarine. Harold Hatari is abducted by Q, and Mighty Jack is dispatched to rescue him. Hatari is interrogated and threatened with blinding lights, but the Mighty Jack crew rescue him in the nick of time. Later, Q is discovered to be using "hot ice" (water that remains solid at room temperature) to create weapons and a secret ocean base disguised as an iceberg (though it's not precisely clear how hot ice could be a major world threat). Q then attempts to take over the Mighty Jack sub.
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Blueprint of Murder (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
暗黒街の弾痕
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūzō Kayama / Makoto Satō …
other title: 暗黒街の弾痕 / Underworld Bullet …
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.
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Tomboy Samurai (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Eggplant.place TMDB
女ざむらい只今参上
director: Kunio Watanabe actor: Hibari Misora / Jun Tazaki …
other title: 女ざむらい只今参上 / Meurtres à Porquerolles
The beautiful daughter of a merchant with a penchant for danger proves to be too much to handle for her worried father. Disguising herself as a man and changing her name, she heads for the capital...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
King Kong vs. Godzilla
director: Thomas Montgomery / 本多猪四郎 actor: Michael Keith / Harry Holcombe …
other title: 킹콩 vs 고지라 / キングコング 対ゴジラ …
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.
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快兽布斯卡 (1966) [TV] Douban
快獣ブースカ
director: 竹前重吉 / 満田かずほ … actor: 宮本智弘 / 吉野謙二郎 …
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Latitude Zero (1969) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
緯度０大作戦
director: 本多猪四郎 actor: 宝田明 / 约瑟夫·科顿 …
other title: 纬度0大作战 / 緯度０大作戦 …
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.
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长篇怪兽电影 奥特曼 (1967) [Movie] Douban
長篇怪獣映画ウルトラマン
director: 円谷一 actor: 黒部進 / 小林昭二 …
other title: 長篇怪獣映画ウルトラマン / Full-Length Monster Movie: Ultraman …
初代奥特曼的剧场版。奥特曼系列最初的剧场版，与外篇作品「金戈古的逆襲」一同上映，而内容就是TV版的1、8、26、27再编集而成。
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暗黑街的颜役 (1959) [Movie] Douban
暗黒街の顔役
director: 冈本喜八 actor: 鹤田浩二 / 宝田明 …
other title: 暗黒街の顔役
1956年の山本嘉次郎監督による「暗黒街」に続く“暗黒街“ものの第2作。といってもストーリー的には何の関係もない。監督は以下3作にわたって岡本喜八が担当。この3作と「独立愚連隊」とで岡本は男性アクション監督の第一人者という評価が固まった。金融会社社長が射殺され、犯人は自動車で逃走した。その事件が迷宮入りになろうとする頃、暴力団・横光組の組員・竜太は、親分の横光に弟の峰夫がジャズ喫茶で歌うのをやめさせるように命じられた。実は金融会社社長殺しは横光の仕業であり、その時の車の運転をしていたのが峰夫だったからだ。しかし、峰夫は足を洗おうとしていた……。
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Battle in Outer Space (1959) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB Eggplant.place WikiData
宇宙大戦争
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Kyōko Anzai …
other title: 宇宙大战争 / 宇宙大戦争 …
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.
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Westward Desperado (1960) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
独立愚連隊西へ
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūzō Kayama / Makoto Satō …
other title: 独立愚连队西行 / 独立愚連隊西へ …
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.
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暗黑街的对决 (1960) [Movie] Douban
暗黒街の対決
director: 冈本喜八 actor: 三船敏郎 / 鹤田浩二 …
other title: 暗黒街の対決
荒神市…
一個充斥著暴力的都市劇中小塚組及大綱組因爭奪砂石開採權展開了種種恩怨…
而小塚組頭目養子的老婆因一離奇車禍喪生。
另一方面在大綱組旗下工作的酒女莎莉不斷的想接近大綱組頭目並想見到車禍案件中主角仁木,她的目的何在?
一名因貪污而被降職到此地的刑警藤丘,會解開這一切謎團嗎?