Direction: Osamu Dezaki

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Osamu Dezaki. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Tomorrow's Joe (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot TV series (1970-1981). 2 seasons. 82 episodes. Ashita no Joe tells the tale of a wandering orphan named Joe Yabuki. He falls into one of Tokyo's slums and gets into...

7.8

110 votes

7.8

110 votes

The Rose of Versailles (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Tada Nagahama · Osamu Dezaki · Yoshio Takeuchi

Plot Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a...

7.2

165 votes

7.2

165 votes

Homeless Child Remi (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

7.2

110 votes

7.2

110 votes

Space Adventure Cobra (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki · Yoshio Takeuchi

Plot In the 24th Century, Cobra fights the Galactic Guild with the help of his android Lady.

7.1

130 votes

7.1

130 votes

One Pound Gospel

1988 · Movie · 55 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot Hatanaka Kosaku, a hopeful boxer, has a mean KO punch. Unfortunately, his dietary willpower is weak, and he eats even greasy hamburgers right before a bout. As a result, he...

6.8

21 votes

6.8

21 votes

6.7

26 votes

The Professional: Golgo 13

1983 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot After assassinating the son of business tycoon Leonard Dawson, Golgo 13 finds himself prey to the CIA and the U.S. Army, whom Dawson has personally hired to kill the assassin....

6.6

375 votes

6.6

375 votes

Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie

1982 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot In deep Space, the United Galaxies Federation of Justice set bounties over all kinds of criminals. Cobra is back in action to help bounty-hunter June find her two sisters, and...

6.5

129 votes

6.5

129 votes

Black Jack

1996 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot Based on the famous Japanese comic by Osamu Tezuka. Black Jack is a mysterious surgeon of incredible skill. He has no license and will only perform operations for large sums...

6.4

414 votes

6.4

414 votes

Clannad

2007 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot Okazaki Tomoya is a student who goes to school only as a force of habit. He continues to be plagued by nightmares of a world with nothing left, where his...

6.4

231 votes

6.4

231 votes

Lupin III: Napoleon (TV)

1991 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot Lupin enters a French classic car race in order to win the prize of Napoleon's Dictionary, which supposedly doesn't contain the word "impossible"... and also happens to have directions to...

6.3

34 votes

6.3

34 votes

6.2

102 votes

Mighty Atom (Astro Boy) (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 22 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Tezuka · Rintaro · Eiichi Yamamoto · Gisaburô Sugii

Plot Astro Boy is a science fiction series set in a futuristic world wherein androids co-exist with humans. Its focus is on the adventures of the titular "Astro Boy" (sometimes called...

6.2

160 votes

6.2

160 votes

Lupin III: The Pursuit of Harimao's Treasure (TV)

1995 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot Lupin's on the trail of a decades-lost treasure - the collected booty of World-War-II-era thief Harimao, worth billions of dollars. But as he plans to con retired British spy Sir...

6.2

41 votes

6.2

41 votes

Remi, the Nobody's Boy (Homeless Child)

1980 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

6.2

115 votes

6.2

115 votes

Air

2005 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot A long time ago, a winged maiden was held prisoner in a castle - cursed never to experience love, lest she die. Centuries later, in a sleepy coastal town, a...

6.2

63 votes

6.2

63 votes

Lupin III: From Russia with Love (TV)

1992 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot Lupin III along with his gang want to steal the lost treasure of the Romanov Royal family, this treasure is an immense quantity of gold hide underground in the United...

6.1

37 votes

6.1

37 votes

Lupin III: Hemingway Papers (TV)

1990 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot Word is out that the "Hemingway Papers", the newly discovered last novel by the great author, tells the hiding place of a buried treasure on a desolate Mediterranean island. Lupin...

6.0

42 votes

6.0

42 votes

Golgo 13: Queen Bee

1998 · Movie · 57 min. · Japan

Direction Osamu Dezaki

Plot aster assassin Golgo 13 is hired by the advisor of presidential candidate Robert Hardy to assassinate "Queen Bee," the beautiful and deadly leader of a South American guerilla army. Golgo,...

5.8

86 votes

5.8

86 votes

5.8

101 votes