Kihachi Okamoto Movies

Based on the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue.

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of attempted rape. He soon meets several individuals claiming to be ministers of their own...

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Three men with completely different backgrounds and beliefs—one in his forties who lived through the war, one in his thirties who grew up in...

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a...

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two...

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game...

Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.

A young couple lives together in a small apartment and struggles to keep their relationship together, despite inertia and financial hardship. Based...

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

Kodaira Mochizuki has come from Edo to keep Horisoto secure.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a...

Period romantic drama.

After seven people vanish from a train, a bumbling police detective teams up with a female college student to solve the mystery.