Akihiko Hirata — Actor (65)
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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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Hawai no wakadaishô (1963) [Movie] IMDb Douban
ハワイの若大将
director: 福田纯 actor: 加山雄三 / 星由里子 …
other title: 夏威夷的若大將 / ハワイの若大将 …
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii.
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Ironfinger (1965) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
１００発１００中
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Akira Takarada / Mie Hama …
other title: １００発１００中 / １００發１００中 …
A silly yet skilled Interpol agent flies to Tokyo and gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
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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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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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Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor (1970) [Movie] IMDb Douban
クレージーの殴り込み清水港
director: 坪島孝 actor: 植木等 / 谷启 …
other title: クレージーの殴り込み清水港
The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the team) for one last feature, Jun Ichikawa's odd Memories of You (Kaisha mono-gatari, 1988) released by Shochiku. Most of the cast of Crazy lrresponsibles at Shimizu Harbor (1966) return in this sequel.
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意大利科斯拉 (1977) [Movie] TMDB Eggplant.place IMDb
Godzilla
director: Luigi Cozzi / Ishirō Honda … actor: Raymond Burr / Akira Takarada …
other title: ゴジラ / 義大利科斯拉 …
Mentre Tokyo è ormai ridotta ad un cumulo di macerie, Steve Martin, giornalista americano del United World News, racconta di come la città è stata attaccata da una mostruosa creatura. Il racconto poi torna al presente e segue le operazioni che conducono alla distruzione di Godzilla, sconfitto grazie all'intervento del professor Serizawa, vecchio amico di Steve.
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Ultraman (1966) [TV] WikiData TMDB IMDb
ウルトラマン
8.3 (67 ratings) actor: 黑部进 / 小林昭二 …
other title: 울트라맨 / ウルトラマン (1966) …
Hayata is a member of the Science Patrol, an organization tasked with investigating bizarre anomalies. He is mortally wounded when accidently encountering an alien being from Land of Light, who grants Hayata new life as the two are merged into one. Now, whenever a threat arises that is too great for the Science Patrol to handle, Hayata activates the beta capsule and becomes the hero known as Ultraman.
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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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日本最长的一天 (1967) [Movie]
日本のいちばん長い日
director: 冈本喜八 actor: 三船敏郎 / 加山雄三 …
昭和20年（公元1945年）8月14日，英国、美国与中华民国所发起的《波茨坦宣言》要求日本无条件投降，日本政府召开御前会议，昭和天皇向铃木贯太郎内阁众大臣宣告日本要无条件投降的事实；使得许多日本陆军年轻军官不满，想尽办法夺走天皇录好的宣告无条件投降的唱片（玉音放送）。当天下午12时，陆军部分军官发起宫城事件、以及海军航空队小园安名大佐在厚木基地的叛乱事件，造成一系列骚动。
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人间革命2 (1976) [Movie] Douban
続人間革命
director: 舛田利雄 actor: 丹波哲郎 / 青井辉彦 …
other title: 続人間革命 / Zoku ningen kakumei
創価学会の誕生を描いた「人間革命」の続編。創価学会を大きくしようと努力を続けていた戸田は、勉強会で熱心に戸田の話を聞いていた山本伸一を経営する正学館に採用、『少年日本』の編集長に抜擢する。しかし、事業はうまくいかず、営業停止になってしまう。会員でヤクザの組長である島谷が資金援助を申し込むが、戸田は断る。数日後、島谷は抗争により死亡してしまい、そのことがもとで、戸田は宗教の道に専心することを決意するのだった。
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Warrior of Love Rainbowman (1972) [TV] TMDB WikiData
愛の戦士レインボーマン
actor: Eriko Ishikawa / Kunihisa Mizutani …
other title: 彩虹化身侠 / 愛の戦士レインボーマン …
television series
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The War in Space (1977) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
惑星大戦争
director: 福田纯 actor: 宫内洋 / 平田昭彦 …
other title: 惑星大战争 / 惑星大戦争 …
The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships.
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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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Girl of Dark (1961) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
女ばかりの夜
7.6 (8 ratings) director: 田中绢代 actor: 原知佐子 / 北明美 …
other title: 只有女人的夜晚 / 女ばかりの夜 …
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) [Movie] Douban IMDb Eggplant.place TMDB WikiData
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
director: 本多猪四郎 / 特里·O·莫尔斯 actor: 雷蒙德·布尔 / 志村乔 …
other title: 怪兽王哥斯拉 / Godzilla …
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.