Joji Oka Movies

The sixth episode of Hashizo Okawa's "Wakasama Samurai" catch series.

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

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying...

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...

Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encounters another great swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi.

Adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's novel.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.

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...

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

A 1943 film.

During the Tenpo era, the peasants of the Kanto region were in dire straits due to successive natural disasters. Maebashi's boss, Shiroganeya...

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...