Filmography from Ikio Sawamura

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Mekagojira no gyakushû, Ishirô Honda, Jun Fukuda (earlier film clips) (uncredited), 1975
Godzilla comes to the rescue when an alien race rebuilds Mechagodzilla to destroy Earth's cities. A traitorous scientist gives them a second weapon: Titanosaurus....

Kaijû sôshingeki, Ishirô Honda, Jun Fukuda (earlier film clips) (uncredited), 1968
Aliens have released all the giant monsters from their imprisonment on Monster Land and are using them to destroy all major cities on the planet. It is up to the daring crew of the super rocket ship X-2 to infiltrate the aliens' headquarters before the Earth monsters and King Ghidrah annihilate the planet. ...

Kingu Kongu no gyakushû, Ishirô Honda (English language version) (as Inoshiro Honda), 1967
When a mechanical replica of King Kong is unable to dig for the highly radioactive Element X at the North Pole, the evil Doctor Who and his sponsor Madame Piranha (Madame X in the American release) decide to kidnap the real Kong. As an insurance policy they kidnap Lt. Susan Miller as well as her boyfriend Lt. CommanderJiro Nomura and Cmdr. Carl Nelson (Kong developed a crush on Susan when she Nomura and Nelson visited the Kong at his home on...

Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira, Ishirô Honda, 1966
A freighter is attacked by a giant octopus during a stormy night. The octopus is then attacked buy a hairy green giant. The gargantua then turns his attention to the ship and sinks it killing and eating all the crew except for one. When the surviving crew member tells the police what happened, they call in Doctor Paul Stewart and his assistant Akemi. Several years earlier, Stewart had a younger species of the same creature and it is feared that...

Gojira · Ebira · Mosura Nankai no daikettô, Jun Fukuda, 1966
A fisherman named Yata winds up missing after the boat he is working on sinks. His younger brother Ryota decides to search for him, but when the authorities refuse to help him he tries to enter a dance contest to win a boat to go search for Yata. When Ryota arrives at the contest he finds out he is too late by a few days, but meets up with two contestants who had already been eliminated named Nita and Ichino. The three youths then head for the...

Furankenshutain tai Chitei Kaijû Baragon, Ishirô Honda, 1965
During WWII, a human heart taken from a certain lab in Europe (Dr. Frankenstein's) is kept in a Japanese lab, when it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and sprouts appendages, and eventually grows into a complete body and escapes. Later, a feral boy with a certain physical deformity (a large head with a flat top) is captured by scientists who refer to the boy as Frankenstein. The creature...

Mosura tai Gojira, Ishirô Honda, 1964
A greedy developer unwittingly hatches a gigantic baby moth upon Tokyo, while Godzilla strikes once again....

King Kong vs. Godzilla, Ishirô Honda (as Inoshiro Honda), Tom Montgomery (as Thomas Montgomery), 1963
A pharmaceutical company captures King Kong and brings him to Japan, where he escapes from captivity and battles a recently released Godzilla....

Kaitei gunkan, Ishirô Honda, Shûe Matsubayashi (earlier film clips) (uncredited), 1963
Several strange occurrences are taking place all over the world including the disappearance of two engineers. Also, former admiral Kosumi is nearly kidnapped along with his secretary, and goddaughter, Makoto Jinguji. The kidnap attempt is thwarted by photographer Susumu Hatanaka and his assistant Yoshito Nishibe. It is later revealed the Mu Empire, which disappeared 12,000 years earlier, are responsible for all the occurrences and are planning...

Uchû daisensô, Ishirô Honda (as Inoshiro Honda), 1959
The nations of the Earth unite in a common cause to fight off an invader from outer space....

Kumonosu-jô, Akira Kurosawa, 1957
A transposition of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to medieval Japan. After a great military victory, Lords Washizu and Miki are lost in the dense Cobweb Forest, where they meet a mysterious old woman who predicts great things for Washizu and even greater things for Miki's descendants. Once out of the forest, Washizu and Miki are immediately promoted by the Emperor. Washizu, encouraged by his ambitious wife, plots to make even more of the prophecy come...