Mariko Okada Movies

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon...

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles...

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

An Ishiro Honda film.

1962 Japanese movie

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her childhood friend Kana who has come to participate in...

A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there.

Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant...

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

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...

Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

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