Hideji Ōtaki Movies

Jiro Takimura, a painter, falls in love with Marie, a beautiful married woman who is studying painting abroad in France.

Koji Himuro is the wandering gambler. His brother and his girlfriend were both murdered because he was determined to expose a gambling cheat. As a...

Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound...

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and...

A brother and sister leave the big city to live with their veterinarian father when their mother is hospitalized. As they are adjusting to their new...

1980 Japanese film.

A suspense work starring Junko Natsu. One night, Saiko Ogata, a popular female DJ on a late-night radio music program, discovers a strange...

Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa, embarks on a marathon across Japan.

1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.

The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in...

Genjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his home, lose his identity, and emerge as...

In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe....

Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to...

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being...

A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the granddaughter of an old friend of Akiyama Kohei, a...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

A live-action adaptation of Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's masterpiece "Shōshō Shigemoto no Haha (Captain Shigemoto's Mother)". Set in the...