Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.

Zatoichi's Conspiracy

1973

Japanese

7.0

♡ 5

75%

Kimiyoshi Yasuda Director

Tatsuo Endô as Boss Iwagoro

Kei Satô as Magistrate

Eiji Okada as Shinbei of Hitachiya

Rie Yokoyama as Yuri / Lily

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.

Chinmoku

1971

Japanese

7.1

♡ 3

17th century

based on novel or book

christianity

Drama

History

jesuits (society of jesus)

religious persecution

Masahiro Shinoda Director

Eiji Okada as Inoue Chikugonokami

Tomo'o Nagai as Official

Kappei Matsumoto as Prisoner official

Yoshio Inaba as Prisoner official

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

Dog of Fortune

1979

Japanese

6.9

♡ 6

Action

Crime

Drama

Shigeyuki Yamane Director

Yuriko Hishimi as Misa

Yôko Shimada as Reiko Kitamori

Kensaku Morita as Saburo Kurata

Eiji Okada as Shuhei Agata

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.

Hiroshima

1953

Japanese

7.5

♡ 12

Hideo Sekigawa Director

Masao Mishima as

Masao Oda as

Isuzu Yamada as

Eiji Okada as Kitagawa

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.

The Scent of Incense. Part 1

1964

Japanese

7.4

♡ 3

based on novel or book

Keisuke Kinoshita Director

Yoshio Inaba as

Eiji Okada as

Eijirô Yanagi as Hotel owner

Nobuko Otowa as Ikuyo

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.

Crazed Fruit

1981

Japanese

5.8

♡ 5

Kichitaro Negishi Director

Toshihiko Oda as Middle-aged Man

Ken Nakamoto as Ôsugi

Toshiyuki Kitami as Shigeo Tanaka

Eiji Okada as Tôno, Chika's step father

A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.

Till We Meet Again

1950

Japanese

7.0

♡ 2

Tadashi Imai Director

Yoshie Minami as

Akitake Kôno as older brother of Tajima Saburo

Hiroshi Kondô as Saburo's friend

Eiji Okada as Tajima Saburo

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

Mother

1952

Japanese

7.5

♡ 3

Mikio Naruse Director

Eiko Miyoshi as

Sadako Sawamura as O-Sei

Masao Mishima as Ryousuke Fukuhara

Eiji Okada as Shinjiro

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Lost Love

1978

Japanese

6.4

♡ 2

Drama

nuclear power plant

seaside

Kazuo Kuroki Director

Sayoko Yamaguchi as Asuka Yamazaki

Eiji Okada as Professor Kamiyama

Yoshio Harada as Sakata

Jun Fubuki as Tsubasa Aoba

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.

Manhunt

1976

Japanese

6.8

♡ 6

Jun'ya Satô Director

Eiji Okada as

Yoshio Harada as Detective Yamura

Ken Takakura as Morioka

Mitsuko Baishô as Otsuki Kyoko

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

I Am a Cat

1975

Japanese

6.5

♡ 4

Kon Ichikawa Director

Eiji Okada as Bunmei

Tatsuya Nakadai as Kushami

Mako Midori as Teacher of Koto

Yôko Shimada as Yukie

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!

This Transient Life

1970

Japanese

7.6

♡ 11

Akio Jissôji Director

Eiji Okada as

Isao Sasaki as

Michiko Tsukasa as

Akiji Kobayashi as

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Gambler's Farewell

1968

Japanese

6.2

♡ 1

Action

Crime

yakuza

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Masayo Banri as Akiko

Seizaburô Kawazu as Masayohi Iwasaki

Eiji Okada as Riichirô Maejima

Kôsaku Okano as Tamaru

The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.

Lullaby of the Earth

1976

Japanese

6.9

♡ 8

Action

Drama

erotic movie

Yasuzô Masumura Director

Eiji Okada as Evangelist

Mieko Harada as Rin

Shigeo Katô as Seisuke

Meiko Kaji as Young girl

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.

Lady Snowblood

1973

Japanese

7.6

♡ 31

100%

Toshiya Fujita Director

Eiji Okada as Gishirô Tsukamoto

Toshio Kurosawa as Ryûrei Ashio

Miyoko Akaza as Sayo Kashima

Akemi Negishi as Tajire no Okiku

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

Hiroshima Mon Amour

1959

French

7.8

♡ 20

96%

Alain Resnais Director

Moira Lister as (Dubbed Emmanuelle Riva) (uncredited)

Emmanuelle Riva as Elle

Bernard Fresson as German Lover

Eiji Okada as Lui

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

The Face of Another

1966

Japanese

7.8

♡ 12

86%

90%

based on novel or book

Hiroshi Teshigahara Director

Robert Dunham as Foreign man in Bar

Machiko Kyô as Mrs. Okuyama

Yoshie Minami as Old Lady

Eiji Okada as The Boss

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

The Yakuza

1974

English

7.2

♡ 30

49%

Sydney Pollack Director

Richard Jordan as Dusty

Brian Keith as George Tanner

Ken Takakura as Tanaka Ken

Eiji Okada as Tono

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.

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Mother

Lost Love

Manhunt

I Am a Cat

This Transient Life

Gambler's Farewell

Lullaby of the Earth

Lady Snowblood

Hiroshima Mon Amour

The Face of Another

The Yakuza