Joji Oka Movies

Japanese film.

1930s Japanese film.

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.

A 1943 film.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

Adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's novel.

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

Japanese drama film.

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a profit even at the cost of human lives. A fireman...

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...