Haruo Nakajima
Birthday: 1929-01-01
Place of Birth: Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Haruo Nakajima (Japanese: 中島 春雄, Hepburn: Nakajima Haruo; January 1, 1929 – August 7, 2017) was a Japanese actor and stuntman. A pioneer of suit acting, he is best known for playing Godzilla in 12 consecutive films, starting from the original Godzilla until Godzilla vs. Gigan. Nakajima also played various other kaiju in Toho's tokusatsu films, including Rodan, Mothra and The War of the Gargantuas and also appeared in minor roles in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and Stray Dog.
Movies
The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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Godzilla vs. Hedorah
An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to con...
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Latitude Zero
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are...
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All Monsters Attack
Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant st...
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Matango
Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island h...
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Adults Cannot Understand - Record of Youth
The first work of 27-year-old director Eizo Sugawa, contrasting a politician father and his son, a d...
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho ver...
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Godzilla
A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. vers...
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Men in Suits
Godzilla… Predator… Robby the Robot… The Gill Man… These are some of the most iconic characters in c...
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Faces of Horror
Although marketed as a "Faces of Death" type of documentary video, this is actually a compilation of...
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Destroy All Monsters
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Mons...
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Invisible Man
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to...
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Atragon
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. Wh...
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and...
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The Mysterians
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens,...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other te...
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Varan the Unbelievable
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military comma...
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Godzilla Raids Again
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside...
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Godzilla
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the isla...
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Beast Man Snow Man
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn...
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Son of Godzilla
Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the ...
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Mothra
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expediti...
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The H-Man
When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police que...
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Ke...
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Frankenstein Conquers the World
During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan t...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
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The Human Vapor
A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes ...
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Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although...
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King Kong Escapes
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil ...
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Godzilla vs. Gigan
Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become su...
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Space Amoeba
When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to t...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for a...
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Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the traditio...
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Mifune: The Last Samurai
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most promi...
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Varan
When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists g...
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Farewell Rabaul
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und...
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Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l...
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Blueprint of Murder
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is ...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught ami...
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The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When...
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The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanes...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplom...
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Japan's No. 1 Playboy
The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was ...
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus....
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The War of the Gargantuas
Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the ...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokur...
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters
Documentary focusing on the Japanese Godzilla, featuring interviews with such people as Director Jun...
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Rodan
Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehis...
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Submersion of Japan
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of ...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
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The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga
Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the ...
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Yearning
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years ...
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Tokyo 1960
A Filipino re-edit of the original Godzilla. Appears to have been edited in a similar fashion to the...
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Godzilla vs. Megalon
Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race...
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Rodan! The Flying Monster
A mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a cr...
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The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
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A Man in the Storm
Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a k...
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The School of Flesh
A love story about a former noblewoman who greedily enjoys love after breaking up with her unhappy m...
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It's a Man's Way of Life
Comedy about a lewd man (Fujita) learning to enjoy life's little pleasures....
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Ironfinger
After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed...
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Key of Keys
Intelligence director Suritai asks agent Kitami to steal money from anti-government guerrillas....
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First Decade Showa Company President vs. Second Decade Showa Company President
After a major corporate merger, a middle-aged executive is demoted but unexpectedly appointed presid...
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Godzilla 1985
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re...
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Dogora
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamond...
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Legend of the Irresponsible Hero
The members of Crazy Cats play employees of a trading company. Ueda Hitoshi of Awa Shoji, a lucky ma...
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