Masanobu Ōkubo

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection fr...

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his fir...

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samu...

Heaven Station

From a true incident that happened in 1960's Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its c...

A Fugitive from the Past

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the...

Judge and Jeopardy

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Ca...

The Longest Tunnel

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the...

Portrait of Hell

The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japane...

Pirates

Oshin

Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmot...