Masao Oda Movies

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

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...

Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class,...

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...

A biographical movie about Shinran

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

1961 Japanese movie

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

Japanese drama

1962 Japanese movie

1957 Japanese movie

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.

1960 Toei film.

Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miyuki), but is having a hard time saving up the...

Japanese film.

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

1962 Japanese movie