Joji Oka

因縁深い二組の新婚夫婦が、奇しくもハネムーンで同じコースをたどる喜劇。緑魔子とデビューより度々組む渡辺祐介監督が、演技派・川崎敬三を相手役に、小悪魔的魅力を引き出す。会社勤めの彰（川崎）は、結婚するつもりだったタイピストの久美（緑）が親会社の御曹司・庄三郎（人見）を打算で夫に選び、失意の中で同僚の知恵子（磯野）と結婚するが、南紀一周の新婚旅行で久美夫婦と何度も鉢合わせするうちに、恋心が再燃してしまう。

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to rescue them.

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

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

When an alien force tries to invade Earth to steal a powerful new rocket fuel, a mysterious hero intervenes.

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and her forces push forward to the borders of India. But gradually the tide turns in favour of the Allies and after the atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is compelled to accept the Potsdam Declaration and by the order of the Emperor agrees to unconditional surrender. Under the supervision of the occupation forces the International Military Tribunal opens in Tokyo to try the Japanese war leaders. Established in the cause of justice, and to prevent future aggressive wars the trials drag on for two and a half years. And on December 23, 1948, General Tojo and six other war leaders mount the thirteen steps to the gallows at Tokyo's Sugamo prison.

里見浩太郎主演のシリーズ第二作。蝦夷を舞台に剣と恋の大スペクタクル痛快作。四代将軍家綱の世、蝦夷各地でアイヌの一族が蜂起し、松前藩の砦を次々と襲っていた。家綱は乳兄弟である京月獅子之助をアイヌとの和睦の使者として、蝦夷に派遣する。獅子之助は腰巾着の勘次とお町をお供に蝦夷に乗り込む。アイヌの頭目クチガイは元隠密の山内左馬之助らと結託し、白熊族の頭目タチキを扇動していた。タチキは彼らから渡された銃を使って砦を襲撃していたのだ。

里見浩太郎の初主演による痛快娯楽時代劇。黄金蜘蛛党と名乗る黒頭巾の一団が上信越の国境付近に出没。江戸ヘ向かう佐渡からの金輸送隊を襲撃する事件が続発していた。この事件を調べるため、将軍家綱は乳兄弟である京月獅子之助を現地に派遣する。獅子之助は輸送団の護衛についていて殺された友人の妹と素っ飛びの勘次を伴って江戸を出発した。信州・上田城で、藩主達から輸送隊消失の状況を聞いた獅子之助は次席家老小市将監の様子に不審感を持つ。

Adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's novel.

Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden treasure of Lord Yoshitsune. When he gives a piece of the treasure to a couple of poor but honest people so they can pay their debts, it attracts the unwanted attention of several dishonest people, such as pirates, greedy merchants and rebels. While the government is fighting a battle for power against rebels and royalists, all want the treasure by any means possible.

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

片岡千恵蔵の十八番(おはこ)「遠山の金さん」シリーズ第10作。遊び人にふんして悪事をあばく、遠山金四郎のいきな啖呵(たんか)と桜吹雪のいれずみも鮮やかなシリーズ初カラー作品。江戸で大工が次々と殺される事件が発生。真相究明に乗り出した“金さん”こと北町奉行・遠山金四郎は、その背景に日光東照宮の建設にからんだ将軍暗殺計画を知り、陰謀一味に挑む。

The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered the ultimate happiness in life when he is reunited with Tone, the love of his life. However, his days of happiness are overshadowed by an upcoming duel with his fateful enemy Miyamoto Musashi.

Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encounters another great swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi.

Japanese drama film.

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

Okawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went on at the Inner Palace, where a young woman who had served the Shogun came home in fear for her life. Will the Young Lord uncover the truth of what went on at the Palace, and does it relate to a series of murders that have been occurring just before the festival?

Japanese film.

A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.

First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

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 monster like creature who kills with his claw like fingers.

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

A 1943 film.

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying Minamoto no Yoshitsune (who is, of course, a man). The film climaxes in the famous encounter/fight btw Benkei and Yoshitsune at the Gojo Bridge.

The prewar film Haha no kyoku (Mother's Melody, 1937) is known for its place in Japanese film history as one of the top three melodramas as well as for its authorship: Yamamoto Satsuo is an auteur not usually associated with filming melodramas. Yamamoto made the film right after he moved, along with his mentor Naruse Mikio, to the Toho film company. A number of subsequent postwar mother's films adopted some of its essences, making it a genre-defining moment in Japanese cinema. This great melodrama is atypical of Yamamoto's output, much of which deals with political corruption and inequities within social institutions and offers a strong anti-establishment appeal.

Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They are polar opposites. When a boat sails out looking for crab and does not return one day the brothers begin to argue over how to run their facility. They had just received a large order from a foreign country and had obtained a loan from a lender that needed to be repaid.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

1930s Japanese film.

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

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

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 a lost film.

Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous Sone family.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its heroine, Yumie Sone. Over two hours long, Seven Seas was released theatrically in two parts, with the first part entitled "Virginity Chapter" coming out in December 1931, while the second part, "Chastity Chapter," followed in March 1932. Near the beginning of the narrative, at a garden party given by the wealthy Yagibashi family in Tokyo, Yumie meets Takehiko, the Yagibashis' playboy son and the brother of Yumie's fiancé, Yuzuru. Yumie, a young middle-class woman, lives with her ailing father, a retired ministry official, an older sister, and a younger sister still a child (played by a very young Hideko Takamine). Takehiko, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, is attracted to Yumie and contrives to have her stay overnight at his family's mansion where he takes advantage of her.

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

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 documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.

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 exposes the corrupt activities of merchants.