The Bridge on the River Kwai
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese cap...
Acting
Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川 平八郎 Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō, 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971), also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa.
He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).
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Browse movies and TV shows featuring Heihachirō Ōkawa
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese cap...
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Ch...
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typis...
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to b...
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to av...
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to v...
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgiving...
In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan,...
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, fi...
Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he...
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of...
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed f...
Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl...
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples...
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his...
A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi inv...
This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the P...
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well...
1962 Japanese movie
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
Young Hiroko’s conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as she has already submitted t...
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a...
Part one of two.
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes i...
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romanc...
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War,...
A five member circus runs into problems while touring rural Japan.
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
It is presumed to be a lost film.
In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.