Movies: Tokihiko Okada

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job....

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, an...

In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise....

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always en...

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity....

Directed by Kisaburo Kurihara....

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Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journaist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film....

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi....

A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief....

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Directed by Yutaka Abe....

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took the direct approach that the Dutch had been unwilling to take, the ruling Shogun knew that the dynasty ...

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A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house....

Directed by Kisaburo Kurihara....

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost....