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...

Mokichi Asai is a widowed father living in Nara with three daughters—Chizuru, Ayako, and Setsuko. The youngest, Setsuko, plays matchmaker for...

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

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.

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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.

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

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student...

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

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

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

Japanese drama film.

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...

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....