Best movies of Kihachi Okamoto

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Naitô, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuriko Hoshi, Tadao Nakamaru, Etsushi Takahashi,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Two ronin - an ex-samurai and an ex-farmer - get caught up in a local official's complex game of murder and betrayal.

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Michiyo Aratama, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ...

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Minori Terada, Etsushi Takahashi,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt ...

Actors : Sô Yamamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Rokkô Toura,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister ...

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Shinsuke Achiwa, Minori Terada, Naoko Ôtani,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

During World War II, a Japanese soldier finds himself assigned to a kamikaze mission against a U.S. battleship.

Actors : Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hideo Sunazuka, Hideyo Amamoto,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsurô Tanba, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Actors : Reiko Dan, Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

In 1945, Japanese Army Sergeant Kosugi and a platoon of young green recruits must retake and defend a fort occupied by the Chinese forces.

Actors : Eijirô Tôno, Michiyo Aratama, Keiju Kobayashi, Jerry Itô,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

This comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salary-man who uses himself as a model to write a novella.

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 : Akihiko Hirata, Yukiko Shimazaki, Jun Tazaki, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

After a long stint working in Alaska, Jiro returns to his hometown. He soon learns that his father, the town's mayor, was murdered and, in his absence, the yakuza gangs have seized control ...

Actors : Takehiro Murata, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kyôka Suzuki,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Actors : Yuriko Hoshi, Makoto Satô, Ichirô Nakatani, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

A lone masterless warrior with some new friends helps ship 300 rifles to a Japanese warlord during the sengoku period.

Actors : Tôru Kazama, Hiroshi Nishikawa, Shigeru Kôyama, Katsuyasu Uchida,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place between captors ...

Actors : Akihiko Hirata, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Kôji Iwamoto, Hideyo Amamoto,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Hiroyuki Sanada, Christopher Mayer, Scott Bachicha,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

(Japanese with English subtitles) A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in San Francisco when a band...

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Fubuki Koshiji, Hideo Sunazuka, Ichirô Nakatani,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Filmed as a traditional Japanese play, a yakuza boss is released from prison, but finds his gang usurped by a shady politician. With the help of his former cell mate he decides to assassinate the politician with an explosive pen.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Seizaburô Kawazu, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned ...