Joji Oka Movies

During the Tenpo era, the peasants of the Kanto region were in dire straits due to successive natural disasters. Maebashi's boss, Shiroganeya...

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Japanese film.

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a profit even at the cost of human lives. A fireman...

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

A 1943 film.

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

Bored Hatamoto movie #14