Ishiro Honda’s 1954 Godzilla connects its radioactive creature with the experience of the atomic age.
HIRNFLIMMERN // Film archive
Japan: cult & supertrash
The “Japan: cult & supertrash” shelf gathers 206 films from our catalogue. Pick your next detour.
From Japanese monster classics to absurd genre experiments. A discovery shelf, not a quality verdict.
Our guide’s house opinion
Three starting points for your film night
Japanese genre cinema has no single style. Three entries deliberately offer different approaches to the fantastic.
Body horror · Cyberpunk & cyborgs · Psychedelic & surreal · Japan: cult & supertrash
Body horror · Eco-horror · Psychedelic & surreal · Japan: cult & supertrash
A personal Hirnflimmern selection. All films on this shelf follow below.
206 films
- A.Li.Ce
- Adieu Galaxy Express 999
- Akira
- A Larva to Love
- Alien vs Ninja
- All Monsters Attack
- Anatomia Extinction
- Andromedia
- Arcadia of My Youth
- Atragon
- A Wind Named Amnesia
- Battle in Outer Space
- Be Forever Yamato
- Big Man Japan
- Blue Christmas
- Burst City
- Cat-Eyed Boy
- Crab Goalkeeper
- Crazy Thunder Road
- Crusher Joe
- Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Vortex
- Daijōbu, My Friend
- Daikyōjū Gappa
- Deadball
- Dead or Alive
- Dead or Alive 2: Birds
- Dead Sushi
- Death Powder
- Dirty Pair: Project Eden
- Dogora
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
- Electric Dragon 80.000 V
- Esupai
- Executive Koala
- Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: In the Name of Love
- Final Yamato
- Fist of the North Star
- Flying Phantom Ship
- Frankenstein Conquers the World
- Fudoh: The New Generation
- Full Metal Yakuza
- Funky Forest: The First Contact
- G.I. Samurai
- Galaxy Express 999
- Gamera, the Giant Monster
- Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
- Gamera 3: Awakening of Irys
- Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
- Gamera tai Gyaosu
- Gamera vs. Barugon
- Gamera vs. Guiron
- Gamera vs. Jiger
- Gamera vs. Viras
- Gamera vs. Zigra
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
- Ghost in the Shell
- Ghost Squad
- Godzilla
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
- Godzilla 2000
- Godzilla: Final Wars
- Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
- Godzilla Raids Again
- Godzilla vs. Biollante
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
- Godzilla vs. Gigan
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
- Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
- Godzilla vs. Megalon
- Godzilla vs. Mothra
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla
- Gojira tai Hedorah
- Gojira tai Mekagojira
- Gorath
- Gunhed
- Half Human
- Harmagedon
- Helldriver
- Ichi the Killer
- IDOL NEVER DiES
- Invasion of Astro-Monster
- Invasion of the Neptune Men
- Kabuto-O Beetle
- Kaiju Mono
- Kaijū sōshingeki
- Kamen Rider J
- Kamen Rider ZO
- Karate-Robo Zaborgar
- King Kong Escapes
- King Kong vs. Godzilla
- Kyūketsuki Gokemidoro
- Latitude Zero
- Legend of Dinosaurs & Monster Birds
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars
- Lensman
- Love & Peace
- Macross: Do You Remember Love?
- Martian Successor Nadesico: The Motion Picture – Prince of Darkness
- Matango
- Meatball Machine
- Meatball Machine Kodoku
- Memories
- Mirai Ninja
- Mobile Suit Gundam
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
- Monster Seafood Wars
- Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit
- Mothra
- Mothra vs. Godzilla
- Mutant Girls Squad
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Nuigurumaa Z
- Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight
- Outer Man
- Patlabor 2: The Movie
- Patlabor: The Movie
- Phoenix 2772
- Planet Prince 2021
- Prayer of the Rollerboys
- Project A-ko
- Prophecies of Nostradamus
- Pussy Soup
- Queen Millennia
- R100
- RoboGeisha
- Rodan
- Roujin Z
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
- Rubber's Lover
- Sayonara Jupiter
- Science Ninja Team Gatchaman: The Movie
- Shin Godzilla
- Shin Kamen Rider
- Shin Ultraman
- Solar Crisis
- Son of Godzilla
- Space Adventure Cobra
- Space Amoeba
- Space Battleship Yamato
- Space Warrior Baldios
- Spriggan
- Submersion of Japan
- Sukeban Boy
- Survive Style 5+
- Symbol
- Tales of Bliss and Heresy
- Terror Beneath the Sea
- Terror of Mechagodzilla
- Tetsuo
- Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
- The Calamari Wrestler
- The End of Evangelion
- The Face of Another
- The Golden Bat
- The Great Yokai War
- The Great Yokai War: Guardians
- The Green Slime
- The H-Man
- The Human Vapor
- The Invisible Man vs The Human Fly
- The Last War
- The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
- The Machine Girl
- The Manster
- The Mysterians
- The Mystery of Mamo
- The Ninja War of Torakage
- The Return of Godzilla
- The Rug Cop
- The Secret of the Telegian
- The War in Space
- The War of the Gargantuas
- The World Sinks Except Japan
- The X from Outer Space
- They Were Eleven
- Tokyo Fist
- Tokyo Gore Police
- Tomie Unlimited
- Toward the Terra
- Uchū kara no messēji
- Ultraman: The Next
- Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
- Urusei Yatsura 3: Remember My Love
- Urusei Yatsura: Only You
- Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
- Varan the Unbelievable
- Venus Wars
- Versus
- Virus
- Visitor Q
- Why Don't You Play in Hell?
- Wild Zero
- Xabungle Graffiti
- Yakuza Apocalypse
- Yakuza Weapon
- Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
- Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
- Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare
- Zebraman
- Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City
- Zeiram
- Zombie Ass
- Zombie TV