Hitoshi Ōmae Movies

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kantarō Suga

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are...

Genre: History

Cast: Richard Boone

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

Waniida from Black Satan attacks a young boy and long-time Kamen Rider ally Tōbei Tachibana, but Kamen Rider Stronger and Electro Wave Human...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shigeru Araki

Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yōko Matsuyama

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

Kyoshiro rescues Shizu who was being abused by her husband, even since she had been violated by the man posing as Ieyoshi. He then learned that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Eiichiro Funakoshi

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tamasaburo Bando

The Stranger comes across some bad guys trying to kill a Japanese emissary for a very important scroll. Before the emissary dies, he asks The...

Genre: Western

Cast: Tony Anthony

Namie's in trouble again, getting snatched by an evil gang in search of treasure. Kirimaru sets out to rescue his sweetheart, and falls in with a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of conspiring to take Shogun's life.

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

The plot follows the titular gang of misfits, gathered together by Chen Kuan Tai (a real life martial arts champion who starred in many films for the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chen Kuan-Tai

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yasufumi Hayashi

Gordon Liu stars as a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife. When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals...

Genre: Action

Cast: Gordon Liu Chia-Hui

Mickey, a smart student from England, is on his trip to Japan for vacation. He meets with a Chinese girl Lin Fang on the way. They each have the same...

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Cast: Mark Lester

When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shogunate sends an incompetent cop, Tanaka, to Kyoto...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A female scientist and two children are accidentally transported into a future dominated by primates.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Reiko Tokunaga

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young...

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in a shipwreck. They are instructed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kaori Takahashi

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A legendary actress thought to be dead is discovered living in an isolated mansion. A screenwriter is tasked with writing her comeback film, which...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takako Irie

The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak accident the year prior. When the other daughter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikari Ishida

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Cast: Makoto Fujita

When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner of the boat, Okin, decides to let Mari stay with...

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Cast: Mari Amachi

Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

There are women who are easily deceived by men, and women who are devoted to men without knowing that they are being deceived. For a man, this ideal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Shimizu