Joji Oka Movies

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Japanese film.

A 1943 film.

Okawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went on at the Inner Palace, where a young woman who had...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

Japanese movie from 1934. The final film of director Hôtei Nomura, who died from a stroke suffered at a screening of this film.

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.

Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They...

It is considered to be a lost film.

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...