Kenji Oyama

Two Enemy Women Gamblers (1969)

Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ...

The Time of Reckoning (1968)

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to ...

The Pit of Death (1968)

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the comp ...

When the Cookie Crumbles (1967)

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai. ...

Gamera vs. Gyaos (1967)

Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance ...

Gamera, the Giant Monster (1965)

A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sym ...

The Forest of No Escape (1965)

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name. ...

Superexpress (1964)

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built ...

Fools at Work (1964)

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito. ...

Lips of Ruin (1963)

Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also known in English as "Black Parking Lot". ...

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great (1963)

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire. ...

Sentimental Mobsters (1963)

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment! ...

Ninja in a Business Suit (1963)

An industry research director, Isomura, is killed in a suspected hit-and-run, but his employee, Hinuma, believes it was murder, not an accident. ...

Black Report (1963)

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime. ...

Fūshinraishin (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Black Test Car (1962)

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch. ...

Red Love, Green Love (1962)

The Salaryman's Carefree Life: What a Relaxed Job This Is! (1962)

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of the Hajime Hana and the Crazy Cats. ...

The Burdened Sisters (1961)

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961. ...

Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya (1961)

A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature, depicted with a wry and stylish touch. ...

Triangle Moods (1961)

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko. ...

A Lustful Man (1961)

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause fo ...

Love and Life (1961)

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura. ...

Nocturne of a Woman (1961)

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached. ...

The Ginza Three Boys (1961)

The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl. ...

The False Student (1960)

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students. ...

The Beloved Image (1960)

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son. ...

Kirai Kirai Kirai (1960)

Across the Darkness (1959)

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign. ...

Beauty the Enemy (1959)

In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city. ...

Odd Obsession (1959)

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife. ...

The Cast-Off (1959)

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the r ...

Image of a Mother (1959)

The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of her own. As Michio clings to memories of his mother, the family navigates the challenges of grief, love, and ...

The Snowy Heron (1958)

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her. ...

The Lowest Man (1958)

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him. ...

Giants and Toys (1958)

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies. ...

Love River (1958)

The Precipice (1958)

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year's Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu's brother works. ...

Three O'clock in the Morning in a Big City (1958)

To avenge the death of his brother, a student shooting champion infiltrates the criminal world. An entertaining action drama and an interesting love story. ...

Advance Patrol (1957)

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find ou ...

Warm Current (1957)

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl. ...

On This Earth (1957)

Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with eac ...

Night Butterflies (1957)

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival. ...

People of Tokyo, Goodbye (1956)

The Valley Between Love and Death (1954)

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair. ...

Lil's Return from Shanghai (1952)

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then. ...

Sinking the Unsinkable (1944)

Japanese Warmovie ...

Sayon's Bell (1943)

Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current Taiwan) who went missing and was thought to have drowned whilst helping carry the luggage of her teacher Masaki Tak ...

The Spy Has Not Died Yet (1942)

There Was a Father (1942)

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects. ...

Acorns & Chestnuts (1941)

A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him. ...

Introspection Tower (1941)

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry. ...

Lovers' Duet (1939)

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut ...

Weeds with flowers (1939)

Weed with Flowers ...

New Woman Question and Answer (1939)

Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko, one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover. ...

Zoku aizen katsura (1939)

1939 Japanese movie ...

Family Diary (1938)

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others' families, and all is well. Then the disagreements start... ...

The Tree of Love (1938)

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to K ...

Forget Love for Now (1937)

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess. ...

Don't Tell Your Wife About It (1937)

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive lace handkerchief. ...

A Star Athlete (1937)

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute. ...

Lady Doctor Kinuyo (1937)

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments. ...

Renai muteki kantai (1937)

A 1937 Japanese film. ...

Song of the Flower Basket (1937)

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo. ...

The New Road: Akemi (1936)

The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi. ...

College Is a Nice Place (1936)

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film. ...

Burden of Life (1935)

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted. ...

Okoto and Sasuke (1935)

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro. ...

Mother's Love Letter (1935)

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school. ...

An Innocent Maid (1935)

In a back alley of the Shitamachi district of Tokyo, Kihachi bears witness to a series of romantic complications involving the inhabitants of the neighborhood. Considered to be a lost film. ...

My Elder Brother (1934)

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn't get along well with his mother. ...

That Night's Woman (1934)

That Night's Woman ...

Love (1933)

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the life of his son. The sister Machiko is the essential link that will allow everyone to apologize to each othe ...

The Boss's Son at College (1933)

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory of his athletic celebrity. Attracting the attention of admiring young wome ...

Every-Night Dreams (1933)

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier. ...

A Woman Crying in Spring (1933)

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido, Kenji attracts Ohama, who is travelling to Hokkaido to open a bar. When Kenji visits the bar, he chases awa ...

The Bride Talks in Her Sleep (1933)

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of early Japanese sound cinema and the social milieux that Shochiku tended to depict. 'Virtually plotless, and fe ...

No Blood Relation (1932)

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before. ...

The Loyal 47 Ronin (1932)

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 feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As t ...

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki (1932)

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932)

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs. ...

Chocolate Girl (1932)

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost. ...

The Neighbour's Wife and Mine (1931)

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his new home, too. ...