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Takeshi Kimura
Writer 1911 - 1987

Takeshi Kimura

Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Kaoru Mabuchi (馬淵 薫 Mabuchi Kaoru), known by the pen name Takeshi Kimura (木村 武 Kimura Takeshi), was a Japanese screenwriter who wrote many of Toho's non-Godzilla tokusatsu films during the Showa era. Unlike his contemporary Shinichi Sekizawa, whose screenplays were noted for... Read full bio →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

13 titles
Gojira tai Hedorâ

Gojira tai Hedorâ

Yoshimitsu Banno 1971 1h 25m 5.3

From Earth's pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedrah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage.

Kaijû sôshingeki

Kaijû sôshingeki

Ishirō Honda 1968 1h 29m 7.0

Aliens have released all the giant monsters from their imprisonment on Monster Island 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

Kingu Kongu no gyakushû

Ishirō Honda 1967 1h 44m 5.8

King Kong is brought in by an evil ruler to dig for precious gems in a mine when the robot MechaKong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle that threatens to level Japan.

Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira

Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira

Ishirō Honda 1966 1h 28m 6.5

An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at the same time as the evil gargantua, the two begin to battle across Japan.

Furankenshutain tai chitei kaijû Baragon

Furankenshutain tai chitei kaijû Baragon

Ishirō Honda 1965 1h 30m 5.0

This Film was banned in 1995 for Political Reasons

Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki

Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki

Hiroshi Inagaki 1964 1h 46m

Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post battle chaos and the persecution of the Shogun's army. Five samurai decide on different fates when it becomes clear that their side is being destroyed.

Matango

Matango

Ishirō Honda 1963 1h 29m 6.3

Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try to live in a fungus covered hulk while repairing Kessei's yacht. Eventually they struggle over the food rations which were left behind by the former crew.

Yôsei Gorasu

Yôsei Gorasu

Ishirō Honda 1962 1h 28m 5.0

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate.

Sekai daisensô

Sekai daisensô

Shūe Matsubayashi 1961 1h 50m

The stories of Japanese civilians with the specter of a nuclear World War III looming.

Gasu ningen dai 1 gô

Gasu ningen dai 1 gô

Ishirō Honda 1960 1h 32m 5.0

A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's career, killing those who interfere. Now Tokyo's most wanted criminal, can authorities stop him?

Bijo to ekitai ningen

Bijo to ekitai ningen

Ishirō Honda 1958 1h 27m 6.7

Fallout from hydrogen bomb tests is turning people into blobs of oozing, radioactive green goop that travel through sewers and have a taste for human flesh, in "The H-Man" (1958). Kenji Sahara, Akihiko Hirata star.

Chikyû Bôeigun

Chikyû Bôeigun

Ishirō Honda 1957 1h 29m 5.5

Scientifically advanced wanderers from the destroyed planet Mysteroid request a patch of land on Earth and the right to marry earthling women. After a demonstration of their destructive abilities from the help of their giant robot Moguera, mankind must decide whether to capitulate or to resist.

Sora no daikaijû Radon

Sora no daikaijû Radon

Ishirō Honda 1956 1h 12m 6.3

When a village is besieged by giant caterpillars, a more horrifying discovery is made in their underground home...a giant flying creature that resembles the prehistoric pterodactyl. Soon after, a second Rodan appears and the two monsters begin to destroy Japan.

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