Movies: Sōnosuke Oda

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall....

Okada, who had escaped death in the duel, suffered the greatest humiliation in the presence of his beloved Fumiko, and disappeared. Mitani and Fumiko are united, but when Okada's body is found, Fumiko becomes embroiled in a terrible incident... The s...

1961 Japanese movie...

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when...

Japanese crime film...

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage....

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo...

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Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolut...

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother....

A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse....

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil....

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless....

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