Movies: Kunio Ôtsuka

  • 1981
    Edo Porn

    Edo Porn (1981)

    Edo Porn

    6.11981HD

    The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin....

    Edo Porn
  • 1962
    47 Ronin

    47 Ronin (1962)

    47 Ronin

    7.31962HD

    After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....

    47 Ronin
  • 1958
    Summer Clouds

    Summer Clouds (1958)

    Summer Clouds

    7.51958HD

    A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang...

    Summer Clouds
  • 1962
    The Wiser Age

    The Wiser Age (1962)

    The Wiser Age

    7.31962HD

    Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....

    The Wiser Age
  • 1956
    The Storm

    The Storm (1956)

    The Storm

    91956HD

    A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone....

    The Storm
  • 1978
    Teacher Deer

    Teacher Deer (1978)

    Teacher Deer

    4.51978HD

    Mejika, reputed for her iron discipline, is hired as a biology teacher at a renowned high school. But her provocative attitude starts to worry the school's administration as she reveals vice and corruption that are running rampant in the school....

    Teacher Deer
  • 1960
    The Lovelorn Geisha

    The Lovelorn Geisha (1960)

    The Lovelorn Geisha

    6.61960HD

    A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'....

    The Lovelorn Geisha
  • 1958
    Futari dake no hashi

    Futari dake no hashi (1958)

    Futari dake no hashi

    01958HD

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    Futari dake no hashi
  • 1965
    The Retreat from Kiska

    The Retreat from Kiska (1965)

    The Retreat from Kiska

    8.51965HD

    In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuation...

    The Retreat from Kiska
  • 1972
    Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl

    Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl (1972)

    Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl

    4.81972HD

    First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang....

    Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl
  • 1957
    Yagyu Secret Scrolls

    Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957)

    Yagyu Secret Scrolls

    71957HD

    In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed...

    Yagyu Secret Scrolls
  • 1959
    A Whistle in My Heart

    A Whistle in My Heart (1959)

    A Whistle in My Heart

    6.31959HD

    The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state....

    A Whistle in My Heart
  • 1966
    Cry for Sorrow

    Cry for Sorrow (1966)

    Cry for Sorrow

    01966HD

    Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo....

    Cry for Sorrow
  • 1984
    Location

    Location (1984)

    Location

    01984HD

    The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with...

    Location
  • 1960
    Beyond the Hills

    Beyond the Hills (1960)

    Beyond the Hills

    01960HD

    Story of young love in the hills....

    Beyond the Hills
  • 1968
    The Fox With Nine Tails

    The Fox With Nine Tails (1968)

    The Fox With Nine Tails

    01968HD

    Tobimaru is the young emperor of Japan. He meets a mysterious woman named Tomamo. After successfully seducing Tobimaru, she brings great misfortune onto the land. Tobimaru soon discovers that Tomamo is actually a kitsune, and now has the task to unma...

    The Fox With Nine Tails
  • 1975
    Kyukei no Koya

    Kyukei no Koya (1975)

    Kyukei no Koya

    01975HD

    A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film depicts the fate of a diplomat who abandoned his country, his wife and children, and risked everyth...

    Kyukei no Koya
  • 1961
    Romance Express

    Romance Express (1961)

    Romance Express

    01961HD

    Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a straightforward but indecisive hero. The passengers also include the bubbly Dan Reiko, and Ozawa Eit...

    Romance Express
  • 1957
    A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye

    A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye (1957)

    A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye

    01957HD

    An Ishiro Honda film....

    A Teapicker's Song of Goodbye
  • 1960
    The Orientals

    The Orientals (1960)

    The Orientals

    01960HD

    Episodic, globe-trotting quasi-mondo focused on women of the East....

    The Orientals