Osamu Ōkawa

Fires on the Plain

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and lef...

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husban...

Zatoichi at Large

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he de...

Black Lizard

The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Bl...

A Lustful Man

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that...

Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on t...

Samaritan Zatoichi

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrive...

The Most Valuable Wife

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is mar...

The Man Without a Map

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective...

Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare

When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.

Etajima, the Naval Academy

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among th...

When Women Lie

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Y...

Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint

It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro...

A Woman's Testament

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financi...

The Falcon Fighters

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of...

Secrets of a Woman's Temple

A woman joins a convent to investigate the suspicious death of her brother but nothing could prepare her for th...

The Cast-Off

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his co...

Fūshinraishin

1962 Japanese movie

Black Speeding

Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his in...

The Burdened Sisters

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

Typhoon Reporter

Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A...

Woman Boss

Marco

A combination of live action and animation chronicinge the great journey of Marco Polo to the mysterious Orient...

Wakai yatsura no kaidan

1961 Japanese movie

Love and Life

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

Triangle Moods

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life ar...

Art of Assassination

A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of...

Machi no uwasa mo sanjûgo nichi

A bride suddenly disappears from the wedding venue, and her boyfriend begins searching for her. Things get hect...

The Last Loyalty Offering

手錠無用

Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance

16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

牝犬脱走

Kanto Onna Gokudo

Japanese crime film

The Gift of the Fox

The White Road Across the River

Bury Me Deep

A suspense directed by Umetsugu Inoue, starring Ayako Wakao, depicting the intense lust created by the passion...