Joji Oka Movies

A 1943 film.

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

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...

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

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...

A spider-like man kidnaps young women and tortures them in his cellar. Adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's novel.

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

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

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

The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents and opponents clashed over the construction of...

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...

First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.

While performing in Kanazawa, the renowned water-trick artist Taki no Shiraito falls deeply in love with a young student, Murakoshi Kinya. Determined...

Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.

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