Masao Oda Movies

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets a teacher and falls...

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

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

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the...

1962 Japanese movie

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

Japanese drama film.

Japanese drama

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

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

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

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just...

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.