Best movies of Eiji Okada

Actors : Kôji Mitsui, Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Hiroko Itô,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Sandra Church, Eiji Okada, Marlon Brando,
Directors : George Englund,

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Ken Takakura, Masako Natsume,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search ...

Actors : Itoko Harada, Peggy Neal, Shun'ya Wazaki, Eiji Okada,
Directors : Kazui Nihonmatsu,

The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they ...

Actors : Isao Kimura, Eiji Okada, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

In 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Actors : Kin Sugai, Kotobuki Hananomoto, Eiji Okada, Akiji Kobayashi,
Directors : Akio Jissôji,

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Actors : Eiji Okada, Shintarô Katsu, Yukiyo Toake, Kei Satô,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds.

Actors : Eiji Okada, Takashi Shimura, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Seiichirô Uchikawa,

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of ...

Actors : Eiji Okada, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed samurai with nothing to do, and their morale...

Actors : Akio Hasegawa, Kikuji Yamashita, Eiji Okada, Sachiko Hidari,
Directors : Susumu Hani,

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new ...

Actors : Kaoru Yachigusa, Eiji Okada, Hiroshi Katsuno, Keiko Takeshita,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest ...

Actors : Eiji Okada, Tsutomu Kariba, Kô Nishimura, Nobuko Otowa,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.