Masao Oda Movies

A biographical movie about Shinran

1957 Japanese movie

A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizing they're both at a brink in their lives they'll...

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

Japanese drama.

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Salaryman comedy.

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

1960 Toei film.

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.

1962 Japanese movie

Modern love story about three disparate sisters, one (Tsukasa) of whom who suspects her husband (Kobayashi) has been unfaithful.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the...

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...