Joji Oka Movies

The sixth episode of Hashizo Okawa's "Wakasama Samurai" catch series.

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is...

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

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...

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

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

During the Tenpo era, the peasants of the Kanto region were in dire straits due to successive natural disasters. Maebashi's boss, Shiroganeya...

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.