Masao Oda Movies

Salaryman comedy.

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city....

Comedy drama film

Japanese drama.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post...

A touching story about little Futyan and his sister Matiko. Their parents are very poor, but the children are not discouraged—they run to...

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

1961 Japanese movie

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...