Akira Ifukube Movies

  • 1962
    Varan the Unbelievable

    Varan the Unbelievable

    Varan the Unbelievable

    4.21962HD

    In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...

    Varan the Unbelievable
  • 1963
    Zatoichi the Fugitive

    Zatoichi the Fugitive

    Zatoichi the Fugitive

    6.81963HD

    After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after...

    Zatoichi the Fugitive
  • 1953
    Anatahan

    Anatahan

    Anatahan

    6.7311953HD

    From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten island called Anatahan.

    Anatahan
  • 1964
    Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

    Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

    Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

    6.81964HD

    Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her,...

    Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
  • 1958
    Varan

    Varan

    Varan

    5.81958HD

    When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover...

    Varan
  • 1965
    Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

    Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

    Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

    6.51965HD

    Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...

    Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
  • 2007
    Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

    Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

    Always: Sunset on Third Street 2

    6.82007HD

    Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his auto repair shop, though now he shares his home with...

    Always: Sunset on Third Street 2
  • 1963
    13 Assassins

    13 Assassins

    13 Assassins

    7.41963HD

    A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...

    13 Assassins
  • 1958
    Night Drum

    Night Drum

    Night Drum

    6.11958HD

    Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

    Night Drum
  • 1963
    Zatoichi on the Road

    Zatoichi on the Road

    Zatoichi on the Road

    6.91963HD

    Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

    Zatoichi on the Road
  • 1952
    Children of Hiroshima

    Children of Hiroshima

    Children of Hiroshima

    7.11952HD

    Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

    Children of Hiroshima
  • 1966
    Return of Giant Majin

    Return of Giant Majin

    Return of Giant Majin

    6.21966HD

    The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord,...

    Return of Giant Majin
  • 1967
    Zatoichi Challenged

    Zatoichi Challenged

    Zatoichi Challenged

    6.71967HD

    Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...

    Zatoichi Challenged
  • 1966
    Wrath of Daimajin

    Wrath of Daimajin

    Wrath of Daimajin

    6.31966HD

    In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A...

    Wrath of Daimajin
  • 1959
    女と海賊

    女と海賊

    女と海賊

    01959HD

    In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

    女と海賊
  • 1966
    Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy

    Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy

    Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy

    5.81966HD

    Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...

    Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
  • 1959
    Samurai Saga

    Samurai Saga

    Samurai Saga

    6.71959HD

    Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

    Samurai Saga
  • 1966
    Zatoichi's Vengeance

    Zatoichi's Vengeance

    Zatoichi's Vengeance

    6.81966HD

    Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...

    Zatoichi's Vengeance
  • 1965
    Zatoichi's Revenge

    Zatoichi's Revenge

    Zatoichi's Revenge

    6.51965HD

    Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of...

    Zatoichi's Revenge
  • 1984
    Godzilla Fantasia

    Godzilla Fantasia

    Godzilla Fantasia

    9.71984HD

    Akira Ifukube has arranged music from his fantastic films into a three-movement symphony, presented here with scenes from the films the music was...

    Godzilla Fantasia