Shōichi Hirose
Shōichi Hirose was a Japanese actor. Sometimes credited as Solomon Hirose, he is probably best known for playing Godzilla's archenemy King Ghidorah and for being the actor inside the King Kong suit in King Kong vs. Godzilla, along with several tough guy roles.
Seven Samurai
as BanditA samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
as King KongThe advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their...
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Ikiru
as Yakuza (uncredited)Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position...
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Godzilla Raids Again
as ConvictTwo fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla...
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Sanjuro
as uncreditedToshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced,...
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Lady Snowblood
as uncreditedYuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of...
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Yojimbo
as Ushitora FollowerA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
as Escaped Slave (uncredited)Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two...
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as King Ghidorah (uncredited)After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster
as King GhidorahAstronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the...
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The Hidden Fortress
as Soldier (uncredited)In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers...
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House
as Ramen TruckerHoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the...
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Terror of Mechagodzilla
as uncreditedA submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
as King Kong (uncredited)When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as (uncredited)A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and...
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Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
as uncreditedLady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to...
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Red Beard
as ThugAspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is...
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King Kong Escapes
as HenchmanAn adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the...
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Frankenstein Conquers the World
as Tunnel WorkerDuring WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to...
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The War of the Gargantuas
as SoldierGaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks...
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Mothra
as Dam WorkerShipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific...
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Rodan
as Meganulon / Fighter pilotMining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when...
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A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of...
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The Mysterians
as Detective in Etsuko's houseIn Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an...
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Atragon
as Mu HenchmanThe legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with...
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Half Human
as Mountain SearcherThree competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as...
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Varan the Unbelievable
as FishermanIn an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as TaheiUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film...
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The Battle of Okinawa
as uncreditedThe Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
as Sarah the Great KingObayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the...
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The H-Man
as Fire department official (uncredited)Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.
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Invisible Man
as PolicemanWhen an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange...
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The Human Vapor
as Burly Guard (uncredited)A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The...
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
as ConvictA prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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The Big Boss
as uncreditedRyuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in...
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The Three Treasures
as uncreditedThe legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...
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Varan
as FishermanWhen a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of...
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Golden Eyes
as uncreditedA killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling...
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Ôban
as The Man On The TrainA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....
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The Beast Shall Die
as uncreditedA promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following...
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Marital Relations
as uncreditedThe story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era....
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Young Swordsman
as uncreditedThis Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were...
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Star of Hong Kong
as WaiterWang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as uncreditedAn American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in...
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The Secret of the Telegian
as uncreditedMen are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device...
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The Retreat from Kiska
as YamashitaIn 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers....
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Eagle of the Pacific
as uncreditedAdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
as uncreditedFollowing the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo...
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Farewell Rabaul
as uncreditedA squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they...
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The Merciless Trap
as uncreditedTaut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy...
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The Daphne
as uncreditedFour sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two...
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Down Town
as uncreditedA woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with...
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Monsieur Zivaco
as Taxi driverInternational thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles...
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The Golden Bat Shows Up
as uncreditedA comedy featuring The Golden Bat
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
as uncreditedAn Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the...
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Rodan! The Flying Monster!
as Fighter Pilot / Meganulon (uncredited)US dubbed and edited version of the Japanese film Rodan. A mining engineer investigates the...
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Japan for Sale
as uncreditedThe sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
as uncreditedAn Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as...
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The Witness Killed
as uncreditedJapanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
as uncreditedThe Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures...
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