Eiji Okada Movies

Youth movie.

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.

When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated...

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

1949 drama film

Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period...

Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal Japan. His daughter, the beautiful Lady Ogin, has an...

This action film depicts the conflict between two brothers, one a detective and the other a yakuza.

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the...

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...

A man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and steal atomic power.

Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in northern Japan. First, Flep must fight for Leila before the...

The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

A hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and two children to visit his parents in his hometown for...