Films based on Japanese myths and legends

1959 film by Hiroshi Inagaki

2015 Hungarian film directed by Károly Ujj Mészáros

2005 film by Takashi Miike

1966 film by Kimiyoshi Yasuda

2021 film directed by Takashi Miike

2005 film by Takashi Miike

is a Japanese tokusatsu series centering on an eponymous fictitious giant warrior god. It initially consisted of a film trilogy shot simultaneously and released in 1966 with three different directors and predominantly the same crew. The series was produced by Daiei Film and contained similar plot structures involving villages being overthrown by warlords, leading to the villagers attempting to reach out to Daimajin, the great demon god, to save them.

1968 film by Kimiyoshi Yasuda

1966 film