Sōnosuke Oda Movies

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

1961 Japanese movie

Japanese crime film

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...

Comedy of a phony doctor.

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil.

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music...

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts....