Heihachirō Ōkawa Movies

Part one of two.

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Cast: Den Obinata

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Following combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom Reese) are given a furlough in Japan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Tryon

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tadao Takashima

The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heihachirō Ōkawa

Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Florence Marly

Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant, a mad scientist, geisha girls, and a goofy...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Steve Forrest

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikako Hosokawa

Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Japanese domestic drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Chiba

Genre: War

Cast: Joji Oka

The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Heihachirō Ōkawa

Genre: War

Cast: Den Obinata

This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Holden

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kenji Sahara

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Geeson

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Kubo

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aldo Ray

Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūzō Itami

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Takehisa

Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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Cast: Shizue Natsukawa

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

It is presumed to be a lost film.

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Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...

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Cast: Kimiko Sakuramachi

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Japanese war movie

Genre: War

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

Genre: Music

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto