Weird Japanese Music Video Anime

87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

UFOs are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them sacrifices itself and takes the form of a popular ... See full summary »

Director: Kôji Shima | Stars: Keizô Kawasaki, Toyomi Karita, Bin Yagisawa, Shôzô Nanbu

Votes: 1,015

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Short, Horror

Jizo, the protector of dead children and all creatures trapped in Hell, is usually found in graveyards. Bake-Jizo is a stature placed at crossroads. There is no official record of Bake ... See full summary »

Votes: 18

One of the earliest horror films, along with Shinin no Sosei (which is not listed here), and they were both some of the earliest Japanese films.

21 min | Short, Action

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

Director: Shôzô Makino | Stars: Matsunosuke Onoe, Suminojo Ichikawa, Kijaku Ôtani, Chosei Kataoka

Votes: 165

Jiraiya is a ninja with supernatural powers, which include disappearing and turning himself into a frog. This means the film is odder than other period films of the time but the lack of translated intertitles makes it a bit tricky to follow the story.

Public domain, get from the Internet Archive - the vast majority of Japanese films were lost by the end of WWII, so it is always a treat to find the bits that managed to make it through.

89 min | Action, Family, Sci-Fi

Shortly after a giant robot destroys a village, aliens from outer space arrive offering friendship. Will the people of Earth tie these two events together?

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata

Votes: 1,525 | Gross: $0.98M

aka The Mysterians

52 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Super Giant (Starman in USA films) continues his battle against the foreign terrorists from Merapolia who are trying to destroy Earth with nuclear weapons. They retaliate by framing him for murder among his allies.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada, Shôji Nakayama

Votes: 35

69 min | Drama, Horror

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Stars: Toshio Hosokawa, Midori Chikuma, Yuriko Ejima, Fujie Satsuki

Votes: 377

85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

Director: Jun Fukuda | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Yumi Shirakawa, Seizaburô Kawazu, Yoshio Tsuchiya

Votes: 214

aka The Secret of the Telegian but I do also like the other one listed: The Electrical Facsimile Transmission Human

96 min | Fantasy, Action, Adventure

Sukezaemon, a pirate, is shipwrecked in a strange corner of the world. With his companion, a wizard named Sennin, Sukezaemon becomes entangled in a plot by the evil premier to succeed the dying King Raksha.

Director: Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tadao Nakamaru, Mie Hama, Kumi Mizuno

Votes: 258

103 min | Drama, Horror

Two women kill samurais and sell their belongings for a living. While one of them is having an affair with their neighbor, the other woman meets a mysterious samurai wearing a bizarre mask.

Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô, Jûkichi Uno

Votes: 17,938

90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Near the end of WWII, Germans transport the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster to Japan, where it is seeming lost in the bombing of Hiroshima. Years later a wild boy is found, born from the immortal heart.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, Yoshio Tsuchiya

Votes: 2,076

87 min | Fantasy

In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A band of young boys decide to rescue their enslaved fathers on their own.

Director: Kazuo Mori | Stars: Hideki Ninomiya, Shinji Hori, Masahide Iizuka, Muneyuki Nagatomo

Votes: 630

73 min | Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi

When the Earth is threatened by an evil alien, a group of UN scientists travel to the lost city of Atlantis where they unearth a superhuman mummy named The Golden Bat who is prophesied to help the humans survive this terrible attack.

Director: Hajime Satô | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Osamu Kobayashi, Wataru Yamagawa, Hisako Tsukuba

Votes: 235

85 min | Horror

An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.

Director: Nobuo Nakagawa | Stars: Yukiko Kuwahara, Yukie Kagawa, Seizaburô Kawazu, Kô Nishimura

Votes: 302

aka Snake Woman's Curse

84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.

Director: Hajime Satô | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Satô, Eizô Kitamura, Hideo Kô

Votes: 1,674

aka Goke: Body Snatcher from Hell

99 min | Horror

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa, Teruko Yumi, Mitsuko Aoi

Votes: 1,527

aka Horror of Malformed Men

89 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A journalist is saved by a giant submarine captained by a 200 year old man who takes him to an underwater paradise city where no one ages. That's when monsters and mutants sent by the captain's rival, a 200 year old scientist, attack.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Takarada, Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Richard Jaeckel

Votes: 871

aka Latitude Zero or Atragon II

81 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A ronin Shino Asu (I die Tomorrow) gets rescued by the Bohachi clan. Their leader Shirobei Daimon, charged by the Shogun with running Edo's brothels enlists him to kill clients of tea-house whores who are stealing his business.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Ryôhei Uchida

Votes: 599

88 min | Action, Crime, Drama

During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.

Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Reiko Ike, Akemi Negishi, Ryôko Ema, Yôko Hori

Votes: 3,138

86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Ocho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Reiko Ike, Makoto Aikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri

Votes: 831

aka Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture

94 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A bad ESP syndicate is planning to kill world leaders through mental telepathy. The good guys are a top secret group called ESPY and they're in charge of stopping the killer psychics.

Director: Jun Fukuda | Stars: Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaoru Yumi, Masao Kusakari, Yûzô Kayama

Votes: 115

91 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Earth is attacked by alien spacecraft from Venus. But a Japanese scientist has constructed a space craft, the Gohten, with which he may save humanity.

Directors: Jun Fukuda, Ishirô Honda, Toshio Masuda, Shûe Matsubayashi, Shirô Moritani | Stars: Kensaku Morita, Yûko Asano, Ryô Ikebe, Masaya Oki

Votes: 528

aka Battle in Outer Space 2

36 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Short

"Biotherapy" is a fairly nasty Japanese gore-fest about a group of Japanese scientists getting stalked and viciously butchered by a creepy-looking alien who's wearing a trench-coat.

Director: Akihiro Kashima | Stars: Jun'ichi Haruta, Yumiko Ishikawa, Hirohisa Nakata

Votes: 156

aka Biotherapy

100 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a cyberpunk future, Kyron-5 supercomputer attempts to exterminate the human race, but Gunhed mechs stop it. In 2038, five thieves break into a condemned island facility to steal Kyron's dead CPU. The place turns out to be a deathtrap.

Director: Masato Harada | Stars: Masahiro Takashima, Brenda Bakke, James Brewster Thompson, Aya Enjôji

Votes: 920

aka Gunhed

R | 83 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

When metal-worshipping fanatics abduct his son, a father unleashes his dormant destructive power, as his naked rage transforms the once-feeble flesh into a grisly symbiosis of metal and tissue. Who dares to defy the ultimate body-hammer?

Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Tomorô Taguchi, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Nobu Kanaoka, Sujin Kim

Votes: 4,364 | Gross: $0.00M

101 min | Mystery, Thriller

A policewoman is investigating the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the girl's professor, who may have been having an affair with her and the professor's wife, who frequents lesbian bars.

Director: Toshiharu Ikeda | Stars: Shirô Sano, Megumi Yokoyama, Kimiko Yo, Tatsuo Yamada

Votes: 131

Weird Japanese Music Video Anime

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