Japanese Special Effects Cinema: Godfathers of Tokusatsu - Vol. 1

Un gruppo di astronomi parte per una spedizione sulla luna.

Un gruppo di banditi organizza una rapina ad un treno porta-vagoni, solo per poi scoprire di essere seguiti dall'altro lato della giustizia.

The story of Jiraiya, a legendary ninja with great powers who set off on a adventure.

Il primo adattamento cinematografico del classico romanzo "Il Mondo Perduto" di Sir Arthur Conan Doyle su un territorio dove creature preistoriche ancora vivono e prosperano.

Nel mezzo della Rivoluzione Russa del 1905, l'equipaggio della nave da guerra Potemkin si ammutina contro il regime brutale e tirannico degli ufficiali di servizio sulla nave. Ne consegue una manifestazione per le strade di Odessa che sfocia in un massacro da parte della polizia.

Un uomo ottiene un lavoro in un manicomio nella speranza di vedere sua moglie.

Ambientato nel contesto di una città futuristica profondamente divisa tra classe operaia e imprenditori urbanisti, il figlio della mente direttiva della città si innamora di una donna della classe operaia, la quale predice la venuta di un salvatore ad alleviare le loro differenze.

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a murderer, wants to sacrifice herself for him and become a prostitute to pay for Rikiya's treatment.

In the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a prostitute.

Una troupe cinematografica scopre una scimmia colossale che è interessata alla loro stella bionda. Viene quindi catturato e riportato a New York City per una mostra pubblica.

The character "Santa" is a vagabond whose main source of income is locating lost coins on the streets of Tokyo. He is dating the pretty girl Omitsu, but her father Seizo does not consider him suitable for becoming his son-in-law. Seizo breaks-up their relationship and finds a new, wealthy boyfriend for Omitsu. Santa figures that he needs money to regain his girlfriend, and starts desperately seeking for a job. But nobody is willing to hire him. Noticing that the foreign-import film "King Kong" is a box office hit, Santa offers to dress up as King to promote a movie theater that is playing this film. He is hired on a try-out basis. Santa starts regularly appearing as King Kong in theaters, and goes on staged rampages against miniature buildings. During one of his performances, he notices Omitsu with her new boyfriend. Blinded by rage, Santa goes on a real rampage and chases after the man, both inside and outside the theatre. Santa beats up the man and leaves his unconscious body on the streets. But the audience thinks that his rampage was part of the performance and they are enthusiastic about it. He gets offered a higher salary for repeat performances, and he now has enough money to gain Seizo's approval and to start dating Omitsu again.

The plot focuses on a giant Buddha statue (known in Japan as a "Daibutsu") 33 meters in height. It comes to life and tours the country, mainly seeing tourist sights,

Teruo is an adopted son of an old samurai family that returns to Japan after living in Germany and is expected to marry Mitsuko. But he's struggling to readjust to Japan and intends to marry an Aryan woman.

Jidai-geki surprisingly critical of bushido codes and practice of seppuku (aka hara-kiri). Yaichiemon Abe, denied permission to commit ritual suicide with more than a dozen vassals to Lord Hosokawa, commits suicide anyway, which in turn brings ruin upon his survivors, who are punished for misdeed.

In part one of this silent two-part film, an ape nicknamed King Kong by its master kidnaps the daughter of a wealthy man as part of a revenge plot by one of his lackeys. The story concludes in Edo ni arawareta Kingu Kongu: Ôgon no maki (1938).

In part two of this silent two-part film, an ape nicknamed King Kong by its master has kidnapped the daughter of a wealthy man as part of a revenge plot by one of his lackeys. The conclusion of the story from Edo ni arawareta Kingu Kongu: Henge no maki (1938).