Joji Oka Movies

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a profit even at the cost of human lives. A fireman...

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and...

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island.

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

A mysterious hero must intervene when a nefarious presence from outer space arrives to steal a powerful new rocket fuel.

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."

Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.