Cast: Heihachiro Okawa

Direction David Lean

Cast William Holden · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · James Donald

Plot British POWs in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge; meanwhile, British agents seek to destroy it. After surrendering his unit to the Japanese. Colonel Nicholson demands...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sô Yamamura · Mieko Takamine · Mariko Okada · Akihiko Katayama

Plot Dancing Girl is an important transitional film, as Naruse deploys some of the flamboyant melodramatic devices that he used in the 1930s in the context of a story that is...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Sadao Maruyama · Yuriko Hanabusa · Tomoko Ito

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Kamatari Fujiwara · Tomoko Ito · Ko Mihashi

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Chikako Hosokawa · Masako Tsutsumi · Ryuko Umezono · Chitose Hayashi

Plot Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, writer-director Mikio Naruse's first sound film, tells the story of three very different siblings forced to work as samisen street musicians to make ends meet....

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Takako Irie · Hideo Saeki · Heihachiro Okawa · Chizuko Kanda

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Sachiko Chiba · Ranko Akagi · Heihachiro Okawa · Ko Mihashi

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Yoko Tani · Ronald Lewis · John Fraser

Plot Dirk Bogarde is an officer during World War II learning Japanese in India in order to do intelligence work on the Indian front. While there he gets a Japanese teacher,...

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Kamatari Fujiwara · Masako Tsutsumi · Heihachiro Okawa · Ryuko Umezono

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Kubo · Jun Tazaki · Yukiko Kobayashi · Yoshio Tsuchiya

Plot In 1999, the United Nations has established bases on the moon and on Ogasawara Island off the coast of Japan. Ogasawara is also where all the world's monsters, including Godzilla...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Joji Oka · Takako Irie · Ranko Hanai · Heihachiro Okawa

Direction Sotoji Kimura

Cast Yuriko Hanabusa · Katsuji Honjo · Setsuko Horikoshi · Keiji Sakakida

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Masao Shimizu · Eijirô Yanagi

Plot Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes...

Direction Yutaka Abe

Cast Den Obinata · Seizaburô Kawazu · Heihachiro Okawa · Ichirô Tsukida

Plot Dramatizes the life of Jiro Horikoshi as he designs modern fighter planes against the backdrop of Japan's national tragedies in the years between World War I and World War II.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kazuo Hasegawa · Isuzu Yamada · Kenichi Enomoto

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Setsuko Hara · Heihachiro Okawa · Sadako Sawamura · Kinji Fujiwa

Direction Yasuki Chiba · Fujio Tsuda

Cast Ryuko Umezono · Akira Kishii · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Benko Nakagawa

Direction Mikio Naruse

Cast Minoru Takada · Takako Irie · Chieko Takehisa · Sadao Maruyama

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Ranko Hanai · Eitarô Shindô · Hisako Yamane · Heihachiro Okawa

Direction Motoyoshi Oda

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Haruo Tanaka · Joji Oka · Gen Shimizu

Plot A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.