Iwao Ōtani Movies

Biographical film about bacteriologist Dr. Hideyo Noguchi.

During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When...

A lighthearted and entertaining film that incorporates popuar songs into a period drama.

A spearman who had long admired the samurai rises up after learning of cruelty of the samurai class.

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...

A social drama about the first female police officer.

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

A story about volunteering in the rural silk farming industry. Recommended by the Ministry of Education.

Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high...

A historical drama about a foul-mouthed but good-natured traveller.

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...