Akiji Kobayashi Movies

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

In this recorded stage debut of the original Ultraman, self-proclaimed world's number one kaiju tamer, Eiji Tsuburaya introduces Ultraman, the...

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...

In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu...

An inventor and his family try to raise funds to feed a giant monster named Daigoro so that he doesn't shrink. Meanwhile, a meteor lands into the sea...

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns...

The superhero The Kagestar fights the monsters of the Satan Empire.

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Video recording of a public event featuring Ultraman, held at the Suginami Public Hall in Tokyo on July 9, 1966, one week before Ultraman's first...

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

A theatrical release of The Return of Ultraman episodes 13-14. It was released on December 12, 1971 as part of the Toho Champion Festival along with...

Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked....

Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high...

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating...

The film is composed of stock footage from the original Ultraman television series with additional newly filmed content, and it served as an...

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an...

In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's...

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...