Nobuto Okamoto Movies

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for...

Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted...

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old...

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to...

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult...

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion...

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from...

A comedy of a yakuza family that goes into show business.

1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.

Hamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell in love with him. The forbidden love between the...

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.

Adventures of a young high school teacher and his oddball students.

Noriko Yamada is a housewife and mother of five children, she and her husband go through an economic crisis that causes them to have problems with...

Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she...