Kihachi Okamoto Movies

Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu is a movie starring Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, and Eijirô Tôno. This comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salary-man who uses himself as a model to write a novella.

Samurai is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, and Michiyo Aratama. February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the...

Dai-bosatsu tôge is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, and Yûzô Kayama. Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Kiru is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsushi Takahashi, and Yuriko Hoshi. Two ronin - an ex-samurai and an ex-farmer - get caught up in a local official's complex game of murder and betrayal.

Akage is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Shima Iwashita, and Etsushi Takahashi. Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the...

Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen is a movie starring Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, and Tetsurô Tanba. Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive...