Movies: Mariko Okada

  • 1969
    Eros + Massacre

    Eros + Massacre (1969)

    Eros + Massacre

    7.51969HD

    Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories....

    Eros + Massacre
  • 1985
    Tampopo

    Tampopo (1985)

    Tampopo

    7.81985HD

    In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making"...

    Tampopo
  • 1960
    Late Autumn

    Late Autumn (1960)

    Late Autumn

    7.81960HD

    A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband....

    Late Autumn
  • 1954
    Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

    Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)

    Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

    7.11954HD

    Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior....

    Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
  • 1962
    An Autumn Afternoon

    An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

    An Autumn Afternoon

    7.81962HD

    Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her....

    An Autumn Afternoon
  • 1956
    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)

    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

    7.31956HD

    A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to f...

    Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
  • 1955
    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

    7.21955HD

    After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skil...

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
  • 1956
    Flowing

    Flowing (1956)

    Flowing

    7.11956HD

    Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of ge...

    Flowing
  • 1955
    Floating Clouds

    Floating Clouds (1955)

    Floating Clouds

    7.71955HD

    A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes....

    Floating Clouds
  • 1962
    Akitsu Hot Springs

    Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)

    Akitsu Hot Springs

    6.51962HD

    Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically...

    Akitsu Hot Springs
  • 1977
    Proof of the Man

    Proof of the Man (1977)

    Proof of the Man

    7.41977HD

    When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime....

    Proof of the Man
  • 2004
    Hakuro no Shibijin

    Hakuro no Shibijin (2004)

    Hakuro no Shibijin

    02004HD

    The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools down it's because she's been murdered!...

    Hakuro no Shibijin
  • 1954
    Farewell Rabaul

    Farewell Rabaul (1954)

    Farewell Rabaul

    91954HD

    A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days i...

    Farewell Rabaul
  • 1987
    A Taxing Woman

    A Taxing Woman (1987)

    A Taxing Woman

    6.81987HD

    Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his a...

    A Taxing Woman
  • 1970
    Heroic Purgatory

    Heroic Purgatory (1970)

    Heroic Purgatory

    6.91970HD

    Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her...

    Heroic Purgatory
  • 1964
    The Scent of Incense

    The Scent of Incense (1964)

    The Scent of Incense

    7.21964HD

    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....

    The Scent of Incense
  • 1999
    The Geisha House

    The Geisha House (1999)

    The Geisha House

    7.31999HD

    Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omocha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through ...

    The Geisha House
  • 1967
    Two Wives

    Two Wives (1967)

    Two Wives

    7.41967HD

    After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the c...

    Two Wives
  • 1953
    Girls in the Orchard

    Girls in the Orchard (1953)

    Girls in the Orchard

    01953HD

    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 care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city....

    Girls in the Orchard
  • 1955
    Lovetide

    Lovetide (1955)

    Lovetide

    01955HD

    An Ishiro Honda film....

    Lovetide