Screenplay: Kihachi Okamoto

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsushi Takahashi · Shigeru Kôyama · Akira Kubo

Plot Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Genta, a former samurai who became disillusioned with the samurai lifestyle and left it behind to become a wandering yakuza (gang) member. He meets Hanjiro Tabata...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shima Iwashita · Etsushi Takahashi · Minori Terada

Plot Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Toshirô Mifune · Ayako Wakao · Osamu Takizawa

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...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Minori Terada · Naoko Otani · Yûnosuke Itô · Eisei Amamoto

Plot During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship.

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Akira Takarada · Mie Hama · Ichirô Arishima · Jun Tatara

Plot A Japanese-Frenchman on vacation is caught up in a criminal conspiracy along with a female bomb expert and a bumbling Detective.

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yusuke Okada · Hiroko Isayama · Kyû Sakamoto · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Tatsuya Nakadai · Kyoka Suzuki · Takehiro Murata

Plot This is the final movie from Okamoto Kihachi, the filmmaker who directed such great movies as “Sword Of Doom”, “Kill”, and “Red Lion”. With an equal mix of violence and...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Yuriko Hoshi · Makoto Satô · Ichirô Nakatani

Plot Kichi is a powerful ninja running away from the Takeda clan, and particularly from another ninja called Saburoza. During his trip he meets two misterious men: Doko Harima is a...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Reiko Dan · Hideo Sunazuka · Eisei Amamoto

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Makoto Satô · Reiko Dan · Yûnosuke Itô

Plot Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tomokazu Miura · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tanie Kitabayashi · Toru Kazama · Hiroshi Nishikawa · Katsuyasu Uchida

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Hiroshi Katsuno · Hirotarô Honda · Keiko Takeshita

Plot After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Keio universities play one final game before they are drafted into the armed...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Yosuke Natsuki · Makoto Satô · Kumi Mizuno

Plot The 3rd and final entry of Okamoto's "Dokuritsu gurentai" trilogy of satiric WWII films

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûnosuke Itô · Fubuki Koshiji · Ichirô Nakatani · Hideo Sunazuka

Plot The sixth generation boss of the Ona yakuza, Daisaku Ona, attempts to return to his old gang after three years in prison, only to discover that it has transformed into...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Tatsuya Nakadai · Ittoku Kishibe · Naoto Takenaka

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Gô Rijû · Yu Fujiki · Ichirô Zaitsu · Eitarô Ozawa

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Makoto Satô · Izumi Yukimura · Misa Uehara · Tadao Nakamaru

Plot When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer.

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Ikkô Furuya · Ichirô Zaitsu · Ai Kanzaki · Mami Okamoto