Masao Oda Movies

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

A biographical movie about Shinran

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.

Japanese drama film.

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...

A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizing they're both at a brink in their lives they'll...

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

Japanese drama