Masao Oda Movies

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets a teacher and falls...

After the father of her son leaves her high and dry, Kazuko gives her child up for adoption and takes a job at a hot spring resort, watching her son...

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...

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

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

1960 Toei film.

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...

A biographical movie about Shinran

The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an...

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...

A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to...