Joji Oka Movies

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...

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying...

Moju Tsukai no Shojo is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film

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...

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Toyama Kinshiro, a commissioner from northern Edo, goes undercover to unravel the mystery behind a series of murders. Kinshiro, played by Kataoka...

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...

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

Japanese film from 1932, adapted from the novel by Kan Kikuchi. The first sound film from director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese film.

A 1943 film.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

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

First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.

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