Released Date:
1957-07-14
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
110 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (309 Reviews)
Director:
Yèzè KawashimaGenres:
ComedyShèhei Imamura
Yèzè Kawashima
Keiichi Tanaka
Set in the last few years of the shogun's rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. The protagonist is Saheiji, a resourceful, witty free spirit. It's 1862, 6 years before the Shogun turned his political power over to the Emperor. Penniless Saheiji splashes out at a famous Shinagawa whorehouse. He's forced to stay on at the whorehouse to repay his debt. At first Saheiji is regarded as an unwelcome guest who never leaves but it turns out he is not just a poor grifter. None of the whorehouse's guests, hosts, servants and attending ladies are innocent but they are pragmatic schemers. Saheiji soon endears himself to them all and solves many whorehouse disputes with his wit. But it is slowly revealed that the seemingly perfect Saheiji is suffering from tuberculosis and his future is uncertain...
Released Date:
1962-05-10
Languages:
Japanese, English, Indonesian
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1901 Reviews)
Director:
Ishirè HondaShin'ichi Sekizawa (screenplay)
Shin'ichirè Nakamura (novel)
Takehiko Fukunaga (novel)
Yoshie Hotta (novel)
Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru Island (Infanto tè), which was previously used for atomic tests. The interior is amazingly free of radiation effects, and they believe that they were protected by a special juice that was given to them by the island's residents. A joint expedition of Rolisican and Japanese scientists explores Beiru and discovers many curious things, including two women only one foot (30 centimeters) high. Unscrupulous expedition leader Clark Nelson abducts the women and puts them in a vaudeville show. But their sweet singing contains a telepathic cry for help to Mothra, a gigantic moth that is worshiped as a deity by the island people. The giant monster heeds the call of the women and heads to Tokyo, wreaking destruction in its path.
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