Mariko Okada Movies

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Murasaki Fujima

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki

Futari dake no toride

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoshirô Otani

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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Cast: Keiji Sada

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

The film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the beautiful courtesan Komurasaki.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tōjūrō Sakata IV

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

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Cast: Mariko Okada

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mariko Okada

A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mariko Okada

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasunori Irikawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariko Okada

A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a student of classical literature, but also a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

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Cast: Rina Nagisa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband's child. Saiko embarks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mariko Okada

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of their master Asano Takumi-no-kami. Shogun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

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Cast: Mariko Okada

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

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Cast: Mariko Okada

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Based on Shinichi Mori song

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools down it's because she's been murdered!

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ikko Furuya

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiji Sada

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûko Natori

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ichirō Sugai

An overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure of the Japanese New Wave.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yoshishige Yoshida

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named Onishi. But when Onishi begins a romantic...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takashi Shimura

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Matsukawa

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omocha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maki Miyamoto

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Akane is the young mistress of Notoraku Inn in Ishikawa Prefecture. She is trained by her mother-in-law, Takako, daily. One day, as Yohei, Akane's...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chizuru Azuma

Japanese romantic comedy film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Minoru Ōki

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

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Cast: Mariko Okada

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiji Sada

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ikko Furuya

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fubuki Koshiji

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

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Cast: Akira Kubo

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her childhood friend Kana who has come to participate in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chizuru Azuma

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mariko Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Comedy of a phony doctor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant...

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Cast: Keiji Sada

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Yuko Asano