Jerry Ito Movies
- 1963
In this Japanese romantic comedy, a Japanese-American nuclear scientist returns to Japan to search for a wife to cater to his every need back home. He is guided by a lovely woman who secretly shares her mission with a reporter. The guide wants to help the scientist and introduces him to a modern Japanese woman. The scientist isn't impressed, but the reporter falls for her. The scientist is deeply awed by Japanese culture and ends up falling in love with the guide. In the end though, the partners change again and the scientist takes home the modern girl while the traditional guide and reporter remain in Japan. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Manster is a favorite among campy horror aficionados and for good reason as it is both unintentionally funny and genuinely creepy. A "Manster" is half-man, half-monster. To accommodate this set-up, the title character has two heads. Back in his single-domed days, the Manster was an American reporter (Peter Dyneley) assigned to interview a Tokyo-based scientist (Satoshi Nakamura). Alas, the scientist was off his rocker, and while experimenting with mutations, he turned the reporter into a double-header. Wait till you see the climax, with the hero battling himself on the edge of a live volcano. Though filmed in Japan, The Manster was based on a script by British producer George Breakston, and acted (if that is the word) entirely in English. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1961
Mothra was the third major addition to the Toho Studios' giant-monster stable after Godzilla and Rodan, and the first female beast in the series. The creature begins Ishiro Honda's entertaining film as a giant larva worshipped by island tribesmen and guarded by twin sisters (Emi and Yumi Ito) who stand only a few inches high. Eventually, the larva metamorphoses into a giant female moth and panic ensues as the creature attempts to regain her stolen egg and her tiny protectors. The usual pandemonium and destruction is tempered here by a softer edge which would come to dominate the genre for much of the decade. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
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