Acting

Kazuko Okada

Acting credits

The 47 Ronin poster
6.9

In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Asano to seppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Kira. Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the Lord's dishonour. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi seeks to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses, and Oishi and 46 rōnin are out for revenge.

The 47 Ronin

1941

Body Jack: Sublime Separation poster
4.5

A high schooler fulfills a lifelong fantasy after a high-tech device lets him slip into the body of his childhood crush's best friend.

Body Jack: Sublime Separation

1987

Love Under the Crucifix poster
7.1

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.

Love Under the Crucifix

1962

Sumida River poster
NR

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big stars like Hasegawa or Bando. "Sumidagawa", named after the river that runs through Tokyo, is also a period film, but thematically a modern one. All the themes that you associate with the normal Shochiku women's films set in the present day are in this film, just in a different context: love, the planning of a marriage, career, family relations and societal melancholy. There is no action or swordplay.

Sumida River

1942

Apostasy poster
6.0

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Apostasy

1948

Women of the Night poster
7.1

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.

Women of the Night

1948

Flower in a Storm poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

Flower in a Storm

1962

元祿美少年記 poster
10.0

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence. When news of his lord, Asano Naganori, attacking Kira Yoshinaka in the palace reached Akō, Uemon no Shichi was sixteen. The family elder, Ōishi Kuranosuke, determined to avenge, gathered allies, but Uemon no Shichi's father, Chōsuke, being sickly and considered too young, was not included. Chōsuke committed suicide.

元祿美少年記

1955

The Garden of Women poster
6.6

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

The Garden of Women

1954

Farewell to Spring poster
6.3

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

Farewell to Spring

1959

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky poster
6.8

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

1954

Christ in Bronze poster
9.0

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

Christ in Bronze

1955

Tsukigata Hanpeita poster
7.0

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the alliance of these 2 clans and restoration of the emperor to full power. Based on the play that made Sawada Shojiro famous, this is the story of Tsukigata Hanpeita, a forward looking samurai from Choshu, who along with Katsura Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma of Tosa worked to bring their dream of a new era in Japan.

Tsukigata Hanpeita

1952

No artwork available
NR

Depicting the lives and spirit of geisha during and after the war.

Oshiroi jō

1947

Akagi no komori-uta poster
NR

Film directed by Tadashi Ashihara

Akagi no komori-uta

1957

Gan-chan no keisatsu nikki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gan-chan no keisatsu nikki

1962

Yoru no hato poster
7.0

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

Yoru no hato

1937