List of the best Eiji Okada movies: Woman in the Dunes(1964), Hiroshima, mon amour(1959), The Ugly American(1963), The Face of Another(1966), Okaasan(1952), Rififi in Tokyo(1963) ... ...
Drama
Japan
1964
125 Minutes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Eiji Okada Kyôko Kishida Kôji Mitsui Hiroko Ito Sen Yano Ginzô Sekiguchi Kiyohiko Ichiha Tamatsu Tamura Hiroyuki Nishimo
entomologist widow villager wife brother dark disheartening creepy japan small town sand pit abduction escape love escape forbidden love 20th century
An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Drama
France|Japan
1959
92 Minutes
Emmanuelle Riva Eiji Okada Stella Dassas Pierre Barbaud Bernard Fresson
architect actress somber bleak powerful hiroshima, japan love loss memory death war discovery love 1950s
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
Adventure, Drama
USA
1963
120 Minutes
Marlon Brando Eiji Okada Sandra Church Pat Hingle Arthur Hill Jocelyn Brando
ambassador government official rebel leader communist powerful bleak intricate fascinating southeast asia senate city office communism american foreign policy imperialism civil wars political unrest diplomacy discovery
An ambitious scholar becomes the ambassador of Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war is brewing.
Drama
Japan
1966
124 Minutes
Mr. Okuyama's boss
Tatsuya Nakadai Miki Irie Mikijir? Hira Kyôko Kishida Eiji Okada Machiko Ky? Minoru Chiaki Robert Dunham Etsuko Ichihara Beverly Maeda Eiko Muramatsu
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Drama
Japan
1952
100 Minutes
Shinjiro
Kinuyo Tanaka Masao Mishima Akihiko Katayama Kyoko Kagawa Eiji Okada
mother husband daughter sister son japanese man melodramatic tender moving japan family home street factory mother/daughter relationship family postwar japan poverty marriage hard times sacrifice
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Drama
France|Italy
1963
79 Minutes
Danny Riquet
Karl Boehm Keiko Kishi Barbara Lass Charles Vanel Michel Vitold Eiji Okada
Van Ekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up, to get a very valuable diamond, so big it's named Titan. Riquet was to be his second-in-command, but a rival gang ... See full summary »