Masao Oda
Birthday: 1908-01-07
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his sur...
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Fountainhead
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply....
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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Phoenix
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news ...
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Police Precinct Part 13
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his d...
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Fateful Birthplace
A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino....
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Itsudemo yume o
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara ...
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Beautiful Calendar
Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there i...
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Dotanba
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest ...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes th...
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Shiroi natsu
Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while ...
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The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food le...
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Whistling in the morning
Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illnes...
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A Billionaire
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and group...
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Our Failures
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love ad...
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The Desperate
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths....
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn....
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Sotobori Murder Case
A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizi...
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Tokyo Bay
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two...
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Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplom...
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The Baby Carriage
Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her ch...
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Rififi in Tokyo
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuab...
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Love and the Shop Curtain
Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan...
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Shinran, Part II
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. ...
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Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to i...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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A Carpenter and Children
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an aff...
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Roadside Stone
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, co...
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Run, Genta, Run!
A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of findin...
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Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home...
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Island of Fury
Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up i...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
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Zero Focus
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip...
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Points and Lines
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group...
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Lead Tombstone
LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescue...
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Eight Hours of Terror
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers....
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The Lost Alibi
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when...
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. T...
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Harbor Rats
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller...
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was ag...
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The Third Ninja
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga....
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father,...
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The Gambling Samurai
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has be...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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Snow in the South Seas
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits ...
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Blood Is Dry
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive ...
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Black River
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The land...
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Fine Man
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes ...
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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including ...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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The Orphan Brother
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they ar...
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Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
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The Master Spearman
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit hara...
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The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
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An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh...
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Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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Mahiru no wana
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amids...
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Tales of Ginza
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband...
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Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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The Angry Sea
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman....
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Mark of Blood
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil....
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The Street Without Sun
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers...
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Woman of Design
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutica...
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Tomoshibi
Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although ...
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The Child Writers
A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the chi...
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Akutoku
A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern ...
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Frankie the Milkman
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to T...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husban...
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A House in the Quarter
With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successfu...
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Different Sons
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over ...
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Hidden Fangs
Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch....
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Chikuhō no kodomotachi
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines....
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Monthly Salary: 13,000 Yen
Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, ce...
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Koi no gashū
Taiji (Kawazu Yusuke), who works at Noble Cosmetics, wants to marry his girlfriend Tomie (Kuwano Miy...
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Irohanihoheto
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, colle...
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Police Precinct Part 13
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his d...
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Police Department Story, Part 15: Alibi
The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government ag...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Black Flower Petal
A reformed bartender is blackmailed into aiding a heist by former gang associates, leading to betray...
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Daybreak Chorus
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Sa...
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Sisters
Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelec...
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Mr. Giant's Victory Flag
Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) ...
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