Best movies of Hideji Ôtaki

Actors : Kin Sugai, Hideji Ôtaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the ...

Actors : Kin Sugai, Hideji Ôtaki, Tatsuya Nakadai, Eri Tokunaga,
Directors : Masahiro Kobayashi,

Haru's Journey provides an insider's look at Japanese culture through its themes of acceptance, endurance and familial commitment. It tells the story of elderly fisherman Tadao and his ...

Actors : Hideji Ôtaki, Tamio Kawaji, Yuko Chishiro, Chico Roland,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

One is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture clash.

Actors : Hideji Ôtaki, Rentarô Mikuni, Misako Konno, Nobuko Otowa,

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess)...