Eiji Okada Movies

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Japanese crime film.

The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair...

A biographical movie about Shinran

In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who earned huge amounts of gold by piracy. Along the...

Adaptation of a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima.

Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the yakuza world he had envisioned. At that time,...

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

Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.

Fourth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class,...

Modern sex and thrill film about tattooed prostitute.

Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.

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

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun...

First film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo...

Junko's only son dies in an accident. Junko is exhausted by despair and grief, and her husband, who should be there to support her, instead blames...