Hiroyuki Kawase

The Battle of Okinawa — The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends

Dodes'ka-den — On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary tr

Godzilla vs. Hedorah — An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spew

Godzilla vs. Megalon — Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called th

Song of the Horse — Akira Kurosawa’s only television work—a lyrical documentary that follows a thoroughbred from birth and training to the J