Eiji Okada Movies

Hiroshima Mon Amour

80/100

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

Woman in the Dunes

85/100

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

The Ugly American

68/100

An ambitious scholar becomes the ambassador of Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.

Antarctica

78/100

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search ... See full summary »

Guila - Frankensteins Teufelsei

49/100

When a crew of scientists returns from Mars with a sample of the space spores that contaminated their ship, the sample escapes and grows into an enormous, rampaging beaked beast.

Assassination

73/100

In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Zatoichi's Conspiracy

73/100

Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds.

This Transient Life

82/100

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.

Mother

78/100

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

Sanshiro Sugata

77/100

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of ... See full summary »

Till We Meet Again

72/100

The hero Saburo (Okada Eiji) is obstructed by a series of events from meeting Keiko (Kuga Yoshiko), his fiancee.

She and He

72/100

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand...

Blue Christmas

62/100

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest ... See full summary »

Der Turm der Lilien

71/100

Hiroshima

78/100

Brilliant retelling of the Day in Hiroshima the day the bomb dropped. A bit heavy handed at times, yet extremely realistic.

Jotai

68/100

Geschichte einer wahren Liebe

71/100

Junai Monogatari is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances.

Ningen gyorai kaiten

73/100

20 Faces

82/100

Dotanba

60/100