Akira Takarada

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

16.323

Gender

Male

Birthday

29-Apr-1934

Age

(90 years old)

Place of Birth

Harbin, China

Also Known As
  • Акира Такарада

Akira Takarada

Biography

Akira Takarada was a Japanese film actor best known for his roles in the Godzilla film series.


Credits

さんさん さんさん (2013) Character: N/A
Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life partner. Her family and friends try to dissuade her.
鬼と呼ばれた男〜松永安左エ門 鬼と呼ばれた男〜松永安左エ門 (2015) Character: N/A
Matsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high economic growth serve as the basis for him to achieve the breakup and privatisation of the electricity business. As a follower of Fukuzawa Yukichi, he inherited the spirit of independence, self-respect and the people. He rose up alone from the ruins of the war. It was the fight of an unconventional, stubborn old man over 70 with an indomitable will. Minister of Trade and Industry Ikeda Hayato admired Matsunaga like a father while Prime Ministers Yoshida Shigeru and Konoe Fumimaro, Shirasu Jiro (Takagawa Yuya) and others were in awe of his unfathomable passion.
接吻泥棒 接吻泥棒 (1960) Character: N/A
Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
ザ・オーディション ザ・オーディション (1984) Character: Emcee
Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!
旅愁の都 旅愁の都 (1962) Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie
首領(ドン)への道 12 首領(ドン)への道 12 (2000) Character: N/A
The twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.
続サラリーマン清水港 続サラリーマン清水港 (1962) Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie
女難コースを突破せよ 女難コースを突破せよ (1962) Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie
夢で逢いましょ 夢で逢いましょ (1962) Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie
月給泥棒 月給泥棒 (1962) Character: N/A
1962 Japanese movie
その場所に女ありて その場所に女ありて (1962) Character: Kosuke Sakai
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
美貌の都 美貌の都 (1957) Character: Koichi Yamawaki
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
沈丁花 沈丁花 (1966) Character: Kudo
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.
わが胸に虹は消えず: 第一部 わが胸に虹は消えず: 第一部 (1957) Character: N/A
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
Godzilla Battle Royale Godzilla Battle Royale (2014) Character: Sec. General Fuji
Godzilla Battle Royale is a low-budget Godzilla fan film, directed and written by Billy DuBose. It was theatrically screened in the Pickwick Theater.
ファンタスティポ ファンタスティポ (2005) Character: N/A
Two brothers must take the helm of their family's company, Armadillo, Inc., after their father steps down from his position as the company's director. Through trials and tribulations, the two slowly begin to learn the true meaning of family.
レッツゴー!若大将 レッツゴー!若大将 (1967) Character: Kou Kure
College student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off against their rivals, Seihoku. Yuuichi has his sights set on winning football gold, but his father, who wants him to take over his sukiyaki restaurant, isn't too keen on this. Set in Kyoto, Hong Kong, and Macau, we follow Yuuichi as he falls in love and chases after his dreams.
私と私 私と私 (1962) Character: Akihiko Kinugasa
Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong vs. Godzilla.
暗黒街の顔役 暗黒街の顔役 (1959) Character: Mineo Komatsu
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 presents problems for the gang, and Ryuta realizes he must kill his brother if he wants to survive.
生誕100年 映畫監督成瀨巳喜男展 生誕100年 映畫監督成瀨巳喜男展 (2005) Character: Voiceover
Because his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he moved to PCL (currently Toho) in 1933, where he appeared in the talkie works "My Wife, Like a Rose" and "Tsuruhachi Tsurujiro." It got attention. There were times when he was unable to make as many films as he wanted due to wartime film regulations and post-war Toho disputes, but in 1951 he revived his career with Meshi. Since then, he has released masterpieces one after another, including "Okaasan," "Lightning," "The Couple," "Wife," "Anii Mouto," "Sounds of the Mountain," and "Bangiku." The pinnacle of his work, "Floating Clouds," is Kenji Mizoguchi's "Wife." Even director Ozu was impressed, calling it a masterpiece of Japanese cinema, on par with "The Sisters of Gion." He depicted ordinary people in everyday life with an everyday realism that was not influenced by lyricism, and he consistently sought out women as his subjects.
香港の夜 香港の夜 (1961) Character: Hiroshi Tanaka
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her distaste for mixed marriages (her mother was Japanese but deserted her family and returned to Japan during WWII). Tanaka locates Wu Li’s mother and unsuccessfully tries to reunite them, but eventually Wu Li accepts his proposal. A joyous Tanaka flies off to Laos to finish an assignment but on the eve of his wedding he is killed there.
香港の星 香港の星 (1962) Character: Hasegawa Toru
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru. The two meet again and fall in love in Hokkaido when Wang and her best friend Sugimoto Kanako are going on a holiday. Urged by her friend Zhang Yingming to concentrate on her studies, Wang remains ambivalent about the relationship, and is even more upset to realise that Sugimoto is in love with her fellow countryman. Feigning an engagement with Zhang, Wang initiates a break-up with Hasegawa and finds work in Singapore after graduation. Hasegawa learns the real cause of the break-up from Sugimoto in Hong Kong. A frenzy search finally leads to a reunion and a proposal in Kuala Lumpur. However, their love is doomed by a twist of fate as Wang must leave to see her desperately ill father in Hong Kong while Hasegawa has to leave for America to pursue his career.
プルメリアの伝説 天国のキッス プルメリアの伝説 天国のキッス (1983) Character: N/A
Emiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira Kuniyoshi (Shinji Yamashita), the son of the president of a hotel chain. Although Emiko is not yet ready to get married, Akira and both of her parents are enthusiastic about the matchmaking. During a summer vacation in Japan, Emiko is attacked with a knife by a boy, but is saved by Shinji Terao (Kiichi Nakai), a young man who happens to be passing by. Shinji is passionate about windsurfing and trains hard every day for the world championships. Emiko is attracted to him because of his sincerity, though he is not very sociable. Upon returning to Hawaii, she overcame her parents' objections and got him to break off his proposal to Akira. Meanwhile, the world competition is approaching and Shinji comes to Hawaii from Japan.
明日にかける橋 1989年の想い出 明日にかける橋 1989年の想い出 (2018) Character: CEO Ogata
Miyuki works as an OL. Her younger sibling died from a car accident in 1989. Due to her sibling's death, her mother became ill and her father drank constantly until he died. Miyuki believes if she could prevent the car accident, her family would have a happy future. She travels back in time to 1989 and struggles to save her younger sibling from the car accident.
山のかなたに 山のかなたに (1960) Character: Kentaro - Ueshima
Story of young love in the hills.
二人の息子 二人の息子 (1961) Character: Kensuke Akagi
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden unemployment later in life causes friction among the siblings of the Akagi family. Kensuke, a salaryman at a top company, refuses to support his parents while his brother, Shoji, determines to care for them despite only working as a taxi driver. The concern over money affects Noriko's own love life as she courts a wealthy salaryman to the chagrin of her mechanic boyfriend.
ある日わたしは ある日わたしは (1959) Character: Daisuke Kaneko
A modern love story involving different affairs.
サザエさんの脱線奥様 サザエさんの脱線奥様 (1959) Character: N/A
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank him for the newlyweds, but Masuo has been told by Managing Director Hanamura to go on a business trip to Kansai. Before long, Masuo contacted Sazae to come to Osaka.
愛情の都 愛情の都 (1958) Character: Kunio Murata
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar hostess.
100発100中 100発100中 (1965) Character: Andrew Hoshino
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning the favor of a notorious arms dealer.
100発100中 黄金の眼 100発100中 黄金の眼 (1968) Character: Andrew Hoshino
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.
ニッポニアニッポン フクシマ狂詩曲 ニッポニアニッポン フクシマ狂詩曲 (2019) Character: N/A
Naraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power plant decommissioning work. Kokuhei Kusunoki is transferred from Aizu Wakamatsu City to Naraho Town to take over the Disaster PR Division. Murai takes Kokuhei around Fukushima including areas washed away by the tsunami. They examine the still incomplete railway lines, the unfinished decontamination area and villages in the danger zone, where deadly cesium continues to pile up. One day Kokuhei is told to organize a party to celebrate the professor who has been appointed as deputy director of the Atomic Energy Research Institute.
サラリーマン忠臣蔵 サラリーマン忠臣蔵 (1960) Character: Kohei Hayano
Part one of The Masterless 47.
ゴジラ ファイナルウォーズ ゴジラ ファイナルウォーズ (2004) Character: UN Secretary General Naotarô Daigo
Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth's cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.
ダンスウィズミー ダンスウィズミー (2019) Character: Machin Ueda
Suzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park and left under the spell. Now she is compelled to sing and dance whenever she hears any melody whatsoever. She heads back to the hypnotist for relief, but he is nowhere to be found. So Shizuka sets off on a journey around Japan to find him and break the spell.
忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻 忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻 (1962) Character: Gunpei Takada
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
マルタイの女 マルタイの女 (1997) Character: Police Commissioner
Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnerable to the killers, the police assign two officers to safeguard her until the trial. In the interim, the lives of Biwako and everyone around her are changed in unexpected ways.
コタンの口笛 コタンの口笛 (1959) Character: N/A
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
小早川家の秋 小早川家の秋 (1961) Character: Teramoto Tadashi
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
大仏廻国 大仏廻国 (2018) Character: Narrator
An all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The Country, made with the cooperation of director Yoshiro Edamasa's grandson. From Japan, a modern kaiju story based on what may be the first kaiju film.
キングコングの逆襲 キングコングの逆襲 (1967) Character: Lt. Commander Jiro Nomura
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.
女の歴史 女の歴史 (1963) Character: Koichi Shimizu
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
弥次喜多道中記 弥次喜多道中記 (1958) Character: Akinosuke Takarai
Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are constantly beset by complications involving women, mistaken identity, and misunderstood events. Another film adaptation of the famous novel Ikku Jippensha Footing It Along the Tokaido (Tokaidochu Hizakurige)
ゴジラ ゴジラ (1954) Character: Hideto Ogata
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.
Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction (2015) Character: Himself
An independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world's greatest monster, Godzilla. Filmed on location in Tokyo to document kaiju-related events, locations and to interview cast, crew and fans of the Godzilla series about their passion and experiences with the King of the Monsters.
Los albores del kaiju eiga Los albores del kaiju eiga (2019) Character: Self - Actor
Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film that tells its story is the first of kaiju eiga, the giant monster movies.
緯度0大作戦 緯度0大作戦 (1969) Character: Dr. Ken Tashiro
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.
遠い約束 遠い約束 (2014) Character: N/A
There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orphans of Manchuria refugee camp who had to struggled against perpetual cold and hunger.
Godzilla, le Monstre de L'Océan Pacifique Godzilla, le Monstre de L'Océan Pacifique (1957) Character: Ogata (as Akiro Takarata)
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 unique assemblage exclusive to the Francophone market. Released by Les Films du Verseau.
血とダイヤモンド 血とダイヤモンド (1964) Character: N/A
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) Character: Ogata
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.
ひばり チエミ いづみ 三人よれば ひばり チエミ いづみ 三人よれば (1964) Character: N/A
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer's investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal taking place at their theater.
放浪記 放浪記 (1962) Character: Fukuya
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth 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.
モスラ対ゴジラ モスラ対ゴジラ (1964) Character: Ichiro "Ichi" Sakai
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies arrive and are aided by the journalists in a plea for its return. As their requests are denied, Godzilla arises near Nagoya and the people of Infant Island must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help.
世の中にたえて桜のなかりせば 世の中にたえて桜のなかりせば (2022) Character: Keizo
Saki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.
或る剣豪の生涯 或る剣豪の生涯 (1959) Character: Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
大当り三色娘 大当り三色娘 (1957) Character: Hajime Kyosu
On Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was Toho's highest-grossing film of the year and the first film released in Tohoscope.
Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra (2010) Character: Himself
A look into the production of the nineteenth Godzilla film. Includes filmmaker and actor interviews with behind the scenes footage of the film's visual effects. Includes an interview with Akira Ifukube and a brief discussion of the late Ishiro Honda.
獣人雪男 獣人雪男 (1955) Character: Takeshi Iijima
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
ばんざい! / 監督・ばんざい! ばんざい! / 監督・ばんざい! (2007) Character: Gentleman in a White Mercedes
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
夜の流れ 夜の流れ (1960) Character: N/A
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'.
あげまん あげまん (1990) Character: Inukai
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.
極楽島物語 極楽島物語 (1957) Character: N/A
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
日本誕生 日本誕生 (1959) Character: Prince Wakatarashi
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 has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
怪獣大戦争 怪獣大戦争 (1965) Character: Astronaut K. Fuji
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". In exchange for borrowing Godzilla and Rodan, the Xiliens offer a cure for cancer. As Glenn investigates, he develops a romance with Miss Namikawa and uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1958) Character: The Boy (Her Brother)
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 ski-ers' shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film Ju Jin Yuki Otoko with added American-made footage, narration and music track.
ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐 ハワイ・ミッドウェイ大海空戦 太平洋の嵐 (1960) Character: N/A
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed with pride in his hometown on his return. As Japan racks up victory after victory in the Pacific War, Kitami is caught up in the emotion of the time and fights courageously for the standard of Japanese honor. But his assuredness of his government's righteousness is shaken after the Japanese navy is defeated in the debacle of Midway.
水戸黄門漫遊記 水戸黄門漫遊記 (1969) Character: Sukesaburô Sasaki
In the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to various countries with his reluctant vassals, Sukesaburo and Kakunosuke, under the name of Koemon, a retired peasant.
世界大戦争 世界大戦争 (1961) Character: Takano
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
娘・妻・母 娘・妻・母 (1960) Character: Reiji Sakanishi
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-laws have no objection to her return to her own family.
わが胸に虹は消えず: 第二部 わが胸に虹は消えず: 第二部 (1957) Character: Tatsuo Ito
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
必殺! 主水死す 必殺! 主水死す (1996) Character: N/A
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an assassin, who by chance encounters an old friend...
ゴジラvsモスラ ゴジラvsモスラ (1992) Character: Environmental Planning Board Chief Jyoji Minamino
Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by calling Mothra to battle the creature. Unfortunately a meteorite has awoken a hibernating Godzilla as a three way battle for the Earth begins.
ミンボーの女 ミンボーの女 (1992) Character: Kobayashi
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
ロマンス誕生 ロマンス誕生 (1957) Character: Ichirô Yabe
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself.
ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ 南海の大決闘 ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ 南海の大決闘 (1966) Character: Yoshimura
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island and discover the Infant Island natives have been enslaved by a terrorist organization controlling a crustacean monster. Finding a sleeping Godzilla, they decide to awaken him to defeat the terrorists and liberate the natives.
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects (2008) Character: Himself
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is Yasuyuki Inoue along with various crew members who crafted meticulously detailed miniatures and risked life and limb as suit actors. All done to bring to life some of film's most iconic monsters through a distinct Japanese artform.
女の座 女の座 (1962) Character: Rokkakuya Kou
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
劇場版 白鳥麗子でございます! 劇場版 白鳥麗子でございます! (1995) Character: Kichitaro Shiratori
Reiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was engaged to Takada, pretended not to be interested in her marriage, but in her heart, she wanted to marry Tetsuya. Tetsuya, unable to see through Reiko's true feelings, replies, "We shouldn't think about marriage until we're both adults and can live on our own." Meanwhile, Reiko's father, Shotaro, is stricken with cancer and receives a call that he has six months to live. In order to fulfill her father's wish, "I wanted to see Reiko as a bride while I was still alive," Reiko asked Tetsuya to marry him, and Tetsuya hesitated but accepted. However, Shotaro's doctor informs him that the cancer was misdiagnosed. While Reiko is relieved, she does not want to cancel her marriage to Tetsuya, so she proceeds with her wedding preparations without informing the people around her.
Godzilla Godzilla (1977) Character: Ogata
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), plus WWII newsreel footage and clips from other science fiction films. The re-edited film was then colorized via a process called "Spectrorama 70" consisting of applying various colored gels to the black and white footage. The film's opening and ending also features new music composed by musicians Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio, and Vince Tempera (under the pseudonym Magnetic System).
Godzilla Godzilla (2014) Character: Immigration Officer
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.



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