Tomioka Motoyoshi

Tomioka Motoyoshi is a Japanese cinematographer.

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Name Tomioka Motoyoshi

Nationality Japanese

Gender Male

Born June 15, 1924

Died December 20, 2011

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Type Japanese

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When the ocean's surface begins to boil white-hot and a Japanese freighter Eiko-maru vanishes into the Pacific, the superstitious villagers of Odo Island Fishing mysteriously drop to zero elder fear an ancient legend has come true the legend of Godzilla! Awakened from an eons-long sleep by an H-b...

Set in the small island of Rabaul, the story follows a pilot stationed there as he waits for further orders. The pilots detests the war and struggles with his patriotic duty when he forms a bond with a local nurse.

A gang posing as invisible people wreak havoc by committing several crimes in Tokyo. However, they cross paths with Takemitsu Nanjo, a war veteran and an actually invisible man who has been living quietly as a clown promoting a nightclub run by the gang. Nanjo takes matters into his own hands and fi...

Japanese Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but overruled, leads his forces to the best of his ability. (Source: IMDB)

When a drug trade turns vinegar and a suspect disappears leaving only his clothes, the Tokyo police interrogate his wife and watch the nightclub where she works. His disappearance leaves the police perplexed - until the appearance of a young scientist who claims that the tests of the H bomb in the P...

Five university students visit the Japanese Alps for a vacation. Unfortunately, two members of their party are lost and presumed dead. During the search for their friends, the students, a group of scientists, and some greedy hunters uncover a tribe of people isolated from society and the man-like be...

Humble medicine store apprentice Xu Xian falls in love with Bai Niang, a woman who claims to be the descendant of a rich family. However, Xu Xian soon discovers that Bai Niang is actually a white snake sorceress who has taken human form. The young couple is then torn apart by a group of monks who wi...

Astrophysicist Ryoichi Shiraishi, his fiancee Hiroko, his sister Etsuko, and his friend Joji Atsumi witnessing a festival at a local village near Mount Fuji. Shiraishi then tells Atsumi that he has broken off his engagement with Hiroko but gives no reason astronomer, Tanjiro Adachi. He hands the doc...

After an emergency landing on a deserted island in the Pacific, young pilots, Tsukioka and Kobayashi, stumble into an epic clash between Godzilla and the monster, Anguirus. The giant beasts drag their battle into the ocean and soon resurface in Osaka, laying waste to the city in a fight to the death...

n the Japanese mining village of Kitamatsu, miners ares starting to disappear deep inside shaft number 8. Some of the men sent to investigate are killed but one who has managed to escape brings back a tale of a giant insect. Soon, the giant prehistoric insects are attacking the village. Not long aft...

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 an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric monster Obaki from hibernation at the lake's botto...

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an armistice. When they get there, peace has been declared, but the sub's crew don't know as their radio has failed. They send their passengers ashore and...

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese filou monkey, who must defeat a variety of cunning demons who stand on his way and that of his Buddhist travel companions. Although it is a literal monkey, although rather anthropomorphized, in the original legends, this film replaces it with the meag...

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destr...

Survivors of a shipwreck are found on Beirut, an island formerly used for atomic tests. Surprisingly free from the effects of radiation, they think they have been protected by a special juice given to them by the natives. A joint expedition of scientists from Rolithoist and Japanese explores Beirut...

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor’s son, Ouso, expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor’s vassal, prefers Ouso’s stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission a...

Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautiful Japanese cities to the ground. A weather survey group discovers that the Japanese Archipelago is moving towards the Japanese Trench, which if left to continue on its collision course, would bring the whole island of Japan unde...

A Japanese Yacht on a day trip comes across a nasty storm that nearly capsizes the boat. its crew and passengers come to a seemingly deserted island where they encounter a bizarre form of mushroom that turns out to be far more dangerous than they ever realized.

Police Inspector Shindo is in charge of keeping Princess Selina Salno of Selgina during the Princess's visit to Japan, due to an alleged assassination plot. At the same time, a meteor shower attracts the attention of Professor Murai who, together with his team of scientists, leaves in nature to exam...

Three men (Dr. Ken Tashiro, Dr. Jules Masson, and Perry Lawton) are trapped in a bathysphere due to seismic activity. They are rescued by the crew of the supersubmarine Alpha, captained by Craig Mackenzie who they learn is over 200 years old (and that the Alpha was launched in the early 19th century...

The film tells the story of Mizuno, a librarian at a sanatorium (implicitly for cancer), who has been given the ability to become vapor after a scientist does an experiment on him. Mizuno uses this power to engage in criminal activities, robbing banks to give the money to his dancer girlfriend. Kenj...

The only survivor of a Japanese fishing boat is hospitalized in a state of extreme shock, and then tells a story that no one wants to believe. In the woods, campers and hikers disappear and leave only eaten clothes, and others report seeing hairy giants. An American scientist investigates, then a Ja...

After a volcanic eruption on Daikoku Island, the Yahata-Maru Japanese fishing vessel is caught in strong currents off its shores the island begins to erupt, and a giant monster lifts itself out of the volcano reporter Goro Maki is sailing in the area and finds the vessel intact but deserted As he...

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian", who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims. (Source: Letterboxd)

News reporter Ichiro Sakai and photographer Junko Nakanishi take pictures of a wreckage caused by a typhoon and they uncover a giant egg on the shore. The local villagers salvage it, and an entrepreneur of Happy Enterprises named Kumayama buys the egg. Instead of letting scientists study it, Kumayam...

Continuing after the end of the previous film. Interpol agents, led by Inspector Kusaka, search for the wreck of Mechagodzilla at the bottom of the Okinawan Sea. Mad scientist, Shinzo Mafune, wants to destroy all mankind. His daughter, Katsura, aide to the simian alien leader called Mugal. She rebui...

The United Nations assembles the ultimate weapon to defeat Godzilla, while scientists discover a Giant egg on a remote Japanese island Godzilla must faces his greatest challenge when he does battle with MechaGodzilla, an armored version of himself equipped with an array of high-tech weaponry.

Strange events are taking place in Okinawa. An Azumi priestess has a terrifying vision of a city being destroyed by a giant monster. An excavation led by Masahiko's brother Keisuke accidentally uncovers a chamber filled with ancient artifacts and a mural bearing an ominous prophecy. Keisuke is joine...

In early 1979, the famous Japanese spaceship, the JX-1 Hawk, was launched into space from the Mount Fuji Interstellar Exploration Agency site. We discover then that a small "planet" on the run, named "Gorath", and a giant monster named Maguma were discovered. Earth scientists are then developing a d...

The Helios 7 space probe is sent on a mission to study the planet Jupiter. The probe is overtaken by the Space Amoeba, an amorphous parasitic extraterrestrial. The probe returns to Earth and crashes into the South Pacific. The Space Amoeba leaves the device and inhabits the body of a cuttlefish caus...

In 1973, the last underground nuclear test, set up near the Aleutians, sent shock waves to the south of the Isle of Monsters. For years, Seatopia, an underwater civilization, has been greatly affected by these nuclear tests conducted by the nations of the world's surface. The Seatopians plan to free...

The year is 1999 and all of earths monsters have been rounded up and placed on an island contaminate facility called Monster Land. Chaos ensues as a malevolent alien race known as the Kilaaks arrive on earth and take control of all of Monster lands inhabitants and unleash them on an unsuspecting pla...

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. He grows at...

Mr. Tako, head of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, is frustrated with the television shows his company is sponsoring and wants something to boost his ratings. When a doctor tells Tako about a giant monster he discovered on the small Faro Island, Tako believes that it would be a brilliant idea to use the mon...

Several strange occurrences are taking place all over the world including the disappearance of two engineers.It is later revealed the Mu Empire, which disappeared 12,000 years earlier, are responsible for all the occurrences and are planning to invade the surface world to reclaim their supposed colo...

A team of scientists are trying to perfect a weather-controlling system 2-meter tall giant praying mantises grow to enormous sizes named Kamacuras the scientists find egg revealing a baby Godzilla named Minilla , Godzilla arrives on the island in response to the infant's cries awakens Kumonga and...

After Yata s lost at sea, his brother Ryota steals a yacht with his two friends and a bank robber,and washes up on the shore of an island, where a terrorist organization manufactures heavy water for their purposes, as well as a chemical that keeps Ebirah giant lobster at bay. The organization, known...

The nations of the Earth unite in a common cause to fight off an invader from outer space.

An evil genius named Dr. Who creates Mechani-Kong, a robotic version of King Kong, to dig for a highly radioactive Element X sets his sights on getting the real Kong to finish the job engaging in a tremendous battle that threatens to level Japan

Ichiro Miki is a highly imaginative but lonely kid growing up in an urban neighborhood. His only friends are a toymaker named Shinpei Inami and a young girl named Sachiko Ichiro, who is tormented by a gang of bullies led by a child named Sanko Gabara . To escape, Ichiro sleeps and dreams about visit...

When several TV satellites launched by the Electric Wave Laboratory go missing above Japan in Earth's orbit, it is found out that they have inadvertently collided with unidentified protoplasmic "space cells" of unknown origin Meanwhile, Inspector Komai's investigation of these strange events led him...

A young man named Shi Do becomes a body chased after being charged with murder under the guise of Kwang Shik, a bully boss who covets his younger sister. Embarrassed, he becomes an invisible person by injecting a human evaporation drug into his body by Dr. Chang Ki Kim, the father of his fiancée Mi...

Millions of years ago, terror from another realm arrived to destroy the planet Earth. Named Desghidorah, this three-headed dragon species of highly advanced, enormous moths protectors of the Elias, a race of tiny fairies, humanlike beings who inhabited the planet after battle Desghidorah was defeat...

It took place in March 1945, as the Japanese forces threw everything they had on the Allied forces to protect their last defensive bastion, Okinawa Island.

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed the supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fle...

The Tainan Airlines Zero Squadron, to which Sakai Saburo belongs, advanced to Rabaul in the South Pacific four months after the start of the Pacific War. Lieutenant Sasai, who had just arrived, was saved by Sakai when he was almost destroyed by the Spitfire. Since then, Sasai was taught by Sakai th...

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story. (Sourc...

In the late 1930's (Show Period 14), two sides in Japan are conflicted between joining Germany and Italy in a military alliance. At this time, Isoroku Yamamoto, who strongly opposed the alliance, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet. The following year, on September 27, Japan, Germa...

As political tensions rise and the arms race escalates between two of the world's superpowers, the Japanese people watch on knowing that all-out war will mean the absolute destruction of Japan and the rest of the world.

Japan and Russia face each other in what will be known as the Russian-Japanese war. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails and a Russian fleet is heading for the Sea of Japan. Admiral Togo Heihachiro sends his fleet to face the Russians, with results that amaze both nati...

Sukezaemon, a pirate, is shipwrecked in a strange corner of the world. With his companion, a wizard named Sennin, Sukezaemon becomes entangled in a plot by the evil premier to succeed the dying King Raksha.

This Classic seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down viewers’ backs. It tells the story of two sister serpents, Pak Su Cheng and Ching Ching. Su Cheng meets Hsu Hsien one day and recognizes him as her savior in another life 1,000 years ago. She marries h...

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A serpent-lady, Bai Su Zhen, has a dream to be a goddess someday. The goddess Guan Yin tells her that it is going to be a long and arduous process, in which she is required to increase her virtue and to sever all forms of worldly relations. Yet, during the process, she meets the scholar Xu Xian. The...

Bai Su Zhen is a white snake spirit who wants to ascend to the heavenly kingdom as a fairy goddess. To reach her goal, she must atone her past life mistakes. She was the beauty Xi Shi who bewitched the King Fuchai and caused the befall of his kingdom. Now that King Fu Chai is reborn as a total worth...

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