Mariko Okada Movies

When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Comedy of a phony doctor.

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

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...

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic...

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.