Screenplay: Ei Ogawa

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ei Ogawa. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Vampire Doll

1970 · Movie · 71 min. · Japan

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Jun Hamamura · Yukiko Kobayashi · Kayo Matsuo · Yôko Minakaze

Synopsis Keiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappeared visiting his girlfriend Yuko.

5.6

52 votes

5.6

52 votes

Lake of Dracula

1971 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Midori Fujita · Osahide Takahashi · Sanae Emi · Shin Kishida

Synopsis A doctor investigates the murders of several women at a lakeside resort. His investigation leads him to believe that a vampire is responsible for the murders. He sets out to track the vampire down.

5.3

40 votes

5.3

40 votes

Space Amoeba

1970 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akira Kubo · Atsuko Takahashi · Yukiko Kobayashi · Kenji Sahara

Synopsis A space probe is infiltrated by alien beings and then crashes on a remote Pacific atoll. A group planning to build a resort hotel land on the island and discover it to be inhabited by giant mutant monsters created by...

5.2

22 votes

5.2

22 votes

Bloodsucking Rose

1974 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Toshio Kurosawa · Mariko Mochizuki · Kunie Tanaka · Shin Kishida

Synopsis Dracula, played by an uncredited caucasian, was shipwrecked in the 1600s in Japan, when Christianity was illegal. He was forced to spit on the cross and wander alone in the desert. Upon finding himself bleeding, he was so thirsty he...

5.0

21 votes

5.0

21 votes

Red Handkerchief

1964 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Hideaki Nitani · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches...

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Ôedo Sôsamô (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Mio Ezaki · Hiroyoshi Tezeni · Akinori Matsuo · Masateru Nishiyama

Cast Tetsurô Sagawa · Takeya Nakamura · Ryô Kurosawa · Eiko Ezaki

Synopsis TV Series (1970 - 1980). The adventures of a ninja group who serve as secret police agents in Edo.

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The Ninja Wars

1982 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Saito Kosei

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Noriko Watanabe · Jun Miho · Yuki Kazamatsuri

Synopsis A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably greedy Lord Donjo. Only the ninja Jotaro can stop Donjo's...

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Esupai

1974 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Hiroshi Fujioka · Kaoru Yumi · Masao Kusakari · Yûzô Kayama

Synopsis A bad ESP syndicate is planning to kill world leaders through mental telepathy. The good guys are a top secret group called ESPY and they're in charge of stopping the killer psychics.

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Direction Akinori Matsuo

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tetsurô Sagawa · Sanae Tsuchida · Rino Takase

Synopsis Spin-off movie of "Ôedo Sôsamô" TV Series.

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Bird of Passage

1959 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Sanae Nakahara · Misako Watanabe

Synopsis Shinji (Akira Kobayashi), a wandering street musician, gets involved with a mob boss, Akitsu (Nobuo Kaneko), after saving one of his henchmen in a bar fight. Akitsu gives Shinji a job to evict an offshore fishery, but things take an...

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Big Shots Die at Dawn

1961 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Jun Tazaki · Yukiko Shimazaki · Akihiko Hirata

Synopsis Jiro comes back to his hometown after a long work stint in Alaska. He soon learns that his father, the town's major, was murdered a year earlier, and in the meantime the yakuza gangs have taken over the reins of...

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The Mad Atlantic

1966 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Mihashi · Makoto Satô · Ryo Tamura

Synopsis Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they ever have, creating enmity and exhaustion. Just when the ship has taken a huge catch of...

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The Bear Storm (TV)

1980 · Movie · Japan

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Kensaku Morita · Hiroko Shino · Shirô Ôsaka

Synopsis About 15 families who moved in search of agricultural land to the land of the pioneers in Hokkaido led a peaceful life. One day, one of the pioneers, Mikio Shimakawa’s wife Yura, and her child Taichi are attacked and killed...

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Terror in the Streets

1970 · Movie · 76 min. · Japan

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Wakako Sakai · Katsutoshi Atarashi · Nami Tamura · Tanie Kitabayashi

Synopsis Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom, she begins to suspect someone is out to drive her insane, or worse.

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