Eiji Okuda Movies

In 1838, the prisoners on Hachijo Island represent the furthest extreme of Japanese society. Instead of execution, they have been forced to eke out a...

Chieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned the store for generations. Chieko is conflicted on...

A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the...

When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are...

The story is set in Japan several years from now. The government has decided to experimentally establish "euthanasia special zones." The protagonists...

An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.

Based on the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi, adapted by Midori Kogane and Hidehiro Ito, and directed by Rokuro Mochizuki, this anti-hero story follows a...

About a group of itinerant actors.

Naoto wants to end his relationship with his stepfather Seiji legally. With this purpose in mind, he visits Seiji’s home for the first time in...

Early Edo period. A family lived in the woods within the neutral zone between the Tsubaki and Hino domains. The head of the household, Saru, was a...

Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her hometown....

Shigeru meets Ichimi at a club and they get involved. Her yakuza husband complicates matters.

Shiro's struggle with his father's cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before...

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble of a destroyed shantytown they plan to haul it out...

25-year-old Nanami is managing an amateur band. She is broke, cannot pay her rent, and the singer has run off. Yoshinori is 65. His wife dies the day...

The story describes how Kaidou Azusa, a practising lawyer and a special appointment associate professor doing research on the brain's memories, is...

A man who left his corporate job to start a handyman business. He helps a customer stage a fake kidnapping, and ends up being pursued as a murderer.

After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is...

A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real-life "Mission Barabbas," a Christian...

Childhood friends Sota, and Rakuto are on a journey to find the Phoenix, which shouldn't exist. As adults, there remains a dark shadow over each of...