List of the best Akihiko Hirata movies: Terror of Mechagodzilla(1975), Rodan(1957), Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster(1974), Godzilla(1954), Godzilla, King of the Monsters!(1956), King Kong vs. Godzilla(1963), Mothra(1961), Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster(1965) ... ...
Sci-Fi
1975
89 Minutes
Dr. Shinzô Mafune
Katsuriko Sasaki Tomoko Ai Akihiko Hirata Katsumasa Uchida Gorô Mutsumi Kenji Sahara Tomoe Mari Shin Roppongi Tadao Nakamaru Kotaro Tomita Ikio Sawamura
Sci-Fi
1957
70 Minutes
Professor KYUichiro Kashiwagi
Kenji Sahara Yumi Shirakawa Akihiko Hirata Akio Kobori Yasuko Nakata Minosuke Yamada Yoshifumi Tajima Kiyoharu Ohnaka Tsurue Ichimonji
Sci-Fi
1974
80 Minutes
Professor Hideto Miyajima
Masaaki Daimon Kazuya Aoyama Akihiko Hirata Reiko Tajima Hiromi Matsushita Masao Imafuku Beru-Bera Lin Shin Kishida Takayasu Torii Daigo Kusano Kenji Sahara
godzilla amusing tense island monsters team rescue rivalry 1970s
Sci-Fi
1954
98 Minutes
Dr. Daisuke Serizawa
Takashi Shimura Momoko Kochi Akira Takarada Akihiko Hirata Sachio Sakai Fuyuki Murakami Ren Yamamoto
godzilla japanese man japanese woman japanese soldier child scientist brooding emotional intense ocean japan tokyo laboratory street car atomic bomb monsters destruction survival danger
A fire-breathing behemoth terrorizes Japan after an atomic bomb awakens it from its centuries-old sleep.
Sci-Fi
USA|Japan
1956
80 Minutes
Dr. Serizawa
Terry Morse Raymond Burr Takashi Shimura Momoko Kochi Akira Takarada Akihiko Hirata Sachio Sakai Fuyuki Murakami Ren Yamamoto
A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo.
Sci-Fi
1963
91 Minutes
Dr. Shigezawa
Inoshiro Honda Tadao Takashima Kenji Sahara Yu Fujiki Ichiro Arishima Akihiko Hirata Mie Hama Tatsuo Matsumura Harry Holcombe Michael Keith James Yagi
Sci-Fi
Japan
1961
101 Minutes
Doctor
Frankie Sakai Hiroshi Koizumi Kyoko Kagawa Ken Uehara Jerry Ito Emi Ito Yumi Ito Takashi Shimura Akihiko Hirata Yoshifumi Tajima Hiroshi Akitsu
monster japanese man japanese woman princess politician police officer brooding emotional intense island japan vaudeville show street house laboratory monsters princess japan destruction danger
A giant, ancient moth begins to attack Japan when coming to the rescue of its two, foot-tall worshippers who were taken by shipwreck survivors.
Sci-Fi
1965
85 Minutes
Chief Detective Okita
Yosuke Natsuki Yuriko Hoshi Hiroshi Koizumi Takashi Shimura Emi Ito Yumi Ito Akiko Wakabayashi Hisaya Itô Susumu Kurobe Akihiko Hirata Kenji Sahara
Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra team up to save mankind from the deadliest threat of all -- a fire-breathing space monster.