Miki Odagiri Movies

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Ikiru" (1952).

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex...

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate...

Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

1962 Japanese movie