The best Keiji Sakakida’s movies

Keiji Sakakida

Keiji Sakakida

Today we present the best Keiji Sakakida’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Keiji Sakakida’s movies.
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Godzilla

Godzilla
7.5/10
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani 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.

Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai
8.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 26/04/1954
  • Character: Gosaku
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Ikiru

Ikiru
8.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/10/1952
  • Character: Land Readjustment Section Receptionist (uncredited)
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Rodan

Rodan
6.2/10
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature. Soon a second monster appears as the two converge in Fukuoka.

Gorath

Gorath
5.7/10
In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after all the orbiting ships are drawn into the planetoid. A later mission is sent to observe and the crew barely leaves before suffering the same fate. However Astronaut Tatsuo Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. The Earth's scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath's path before it is too late.

The Human Vapor

The Human Vapor
6.3/10
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo's most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?

Travelling Actors

Travelling Actors
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/12/1940
  • Character: Farmer
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

The H-Man

The H-Man
6/10
  • Genre: HorrorScience Fiction
  • Release: 24/06/1958
  • Character: Old policeman - investigation room (uncredited)
Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man
6/10
A car strikes an unseen object; blood spreads from an invisible source which becomes visible as the bleeding man dies. He carries with him a suicide note dedicated to his only friend, who is also an invisible man. An eager young reporter tracks down Takemitsu Nanjo, a war veteran who makes his living visibly, painting his face like a clown's and carrying advertising signs. His favorite neighbor is a little blind girl whose mother is running afoul of local gangsters. The gangsters have been terrorizing the city as "the invisible gang," wrapping themselves up in scarves and trenchcoats so as to be visible to their victims, even though they are supposed to be invisible underneath. Once they discover Nanjo, who is defending his only friends, they beat him and leave him for dead.

The Giant

The Giant
7.1/10
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.

Rise Against the Sword

Rise Against the Sword
6.7/10
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.

World of Love

World of Love
6.3/10
  • Release: 14/04/1943
Japanese war-era film

Hideko the Bus Conductress

Hideko the Bus Conductress
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/09/1941
  • Character: Bus customer
Young Hideko hits on the idea to run bus tours in rural Japan.

Till We Meet Again

Till We Meet Again
7/10
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

I Want to Be a Shellfish

I Want to Be a Shellfish
7.4/10
  • Release: 12/04/1959
Theatrical version of I Want to Be a Shellfish, with Frankie Sakai reprising his role as Toyomatsu Shimizu. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.

Tokyo no hito sayonara

Tokyo no hito sayonara
7.5/10
  • Release: 28/06/1956
  • Character: Watchman (uncredited)

Duel at Fort Ezo

Duel at Fort Ezo
6.7/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 09/02/1970
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.

Brother and Sister

Brother and Sister
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/06/1936
Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good girl.” The mother is very supportive of her daughters, but, the father, Akaza, who is the stonecutter foreman on the damn, lacks control of his family.

Ikeru ningyō

Ikeru ningyō

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