Filmography from Masaaki Tachibana

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Ido zero daisakusen, Ishirô Honda, 1969
Discover the incredible world of tomorrow... 15 miles straight down at LATITUDE ZERO...

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...

Kaijû daisensô, Ishirô Honda (as Inoshirô Honda), 1965
Aliens from the mysterious Planet X, which resides on the dark side of of Jupiter, come to Earth asking its people to help them save their world from the dreaded King Ghidrah by letting them "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan. The aliens are actually planning to use the three monsters to take over our planet....

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....

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...

Mosura, Ishirô Honda (as Inoshiro Honda), 1961
Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru, an island previously used for atomic tests. Amazingly free of radiation effects, they believe they were protected by a special juice given to them by the natives. A joint expedition of Rolithican and Japanese scientists explores Beiru and discovers many curious things, including two women only a foot high. Unscrupulous expedition leader Clark Nelson abducts the women and puts them in a vaudeville show. But...

Gasu ningen dai 1 gô, Ishirô Honda, 1960
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career of his girlfriend, a beautiful dancer. The Human Vapour is ruthless in his quest for money and kills anyone who stands in his way, especially police. He soon becomes Tokyo's most wanted criminal. Can he be stopped before he kills again?...

Bijo to ekitai ningen, Ishirô Honda, 1958
A drug dealer named Misaki disappears leaving only his clothes. The next day the police go to question his girlfriend, singer Chikako Arai, and she informs them that she doesn't have any information on where he is. Later that evening one of his associates comes by to try to beat the truth out her. After he leaves he disappears in the same way that Misaki did. A short time later, a young scientist named Masada informs the police that there was a...

Chikyû Bôeigun, Ishirô Honda, 1957
Aliens arrive on Earth and ask permission to be given a certain tract of land for their people to live on. But when they are discovered to be invaders, responsible for the giant robot that is destroying cities, the armed forces attempt to stop them with every weapon available....

Sora no daikaijû Radon, Ishirô Honda, 1956
Mutant pterosaurs and prehistoric insects terrorize humanity...

Gojira no gyakushû, Motoyoshi Oda, Ishirô Honda (earlier film clips) (uncredited), 1955
Godzilla battles an irradiated Ankylosaur and destroys Osaka in the process....

Gojira, Ishirô Honda, 1954
American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable, dinosaur-like beast. ...