Masaaki Daimon


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Terror Of Mechagodzilla (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Approaching The Target Area We don’t know the pretty girl (Tomoko Ai) on the rocky shore but she’s darn sure connected, as the submarine commanded by Masaaki Daimon looks for what’s left of the title character, who was mostly sunk in the last movie, opening the 15th film in the Toho Ltd. Godzilla franchise, Terror Of Mechagodzilla,1975.
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) -- (Movie Clip) It Doesn't Add Up! Godzilla, who’s been on good terms with humans lately, is inexplicably raging around Gotemba, as engineer Keisuke (Masaaki Daimon) rushes to get there, and stranger still, he fights with friendly Anguirus, but there’s this strange gleaming under his skin, in Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla, 1974.
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Two Monsters Will Join Forces Meeting by chance on a jet from Okinawa to Tokyo, archaeologist Saeko (Reiko Tajima) and engineer Keisuke (Masaaki Daimon) puzzle over a hieroglyph and the statue she found in his mine, meet a strange guy in shades (Shin Kishida), then professor Wagura (Hiroshi Koizumi), who happens to be a relation, in Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla, 1974.
Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) -- (Movie Clip) A Cyborg? Previously-friendly Godzilla’s mysterious rampage continues at a refinery, brothers Keisuke and Masahiko (Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama), arriving with professor Miyajima (Akihiko Hiraka, with daughter Hiromi Matsushita) who figures it out when a second monster appears, but no explanation for a dude (Goro Mutsu Mutsumi) in some command center, in Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla, 1974.
Lady Snowblood (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Before We Enter The World The mature Yuki (Meiko Kaji, title character) explains some of the background of her mission to dissolute warlord Matsuemon (Hitoshi Takagi), director Toshya Fujita using graphics inspired by the original Manga author Kazuo Koiki, in Lady Snowblood, 1973.
Lady Snowblood (1973) -- (Movie Clip) You Are An Asura Demon The opening, based on the Manga by Kazuo Koiki, from director Toshiya Fujita and screenwriter Norio Osada, as the mother (Sayo Kashima) is near death in childbirth in a 19th century Japanese prison, the birth of the title character, from Lady Snowblood, 1973.
Lady Snowblood (1973) -- (Movie Clip) You Were Not Born A Human Child As referenced directly in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill pictures, young Yuki (Mayumi Maemura, the title character) in training with priest Dokai (Ko Nishimura) for her career as an “asura demon,” in director Toshiya Fujita’s celebrated Lady Snowblood, 1973.
Lady Snowblood (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Revenge Immediately following the scene of her birth, in which her dying mother vowed she would carry on her vendetta, Yuki (Meiko Kaji, title character) meets Shibayama (Hosei Komatsu) and his crew, in Lady Snowblood, 1973, the chief inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films.

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