Hideji Ōtaki Movies
- 1980
Kagemusha
Kagemusha7.811980HD
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
- 1985
Tampopo
Tampopo7.8431985HD
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner,...
- 2004
Izo
Izo6.052004HD
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified....
- 1973
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons7.21973HD
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...
- 2004
Casshern
Casshern5.8812004HD
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of...
- 1978
The Demon
The Demon6.41978HD
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children...
- 1989
Black Rain
Black Rain7.5181989HD
Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...
- 2008
Kabei: Our Mother
Kabei: Our Mother7.22008HD
Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....
- 2008
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces62008HD
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class...
- 1984
The Funeral
The Funeral7.21984HD
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...
- 1988
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis6.31988HD
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.
- 1976
The Inugamis
The Inugamis6.8551976HD
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons,...
- 1992
Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion6.71992HD
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they...
- 1977
Village of Eight Gravestones
Village of Eight Gravestones6.61977HD
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...
- 1986
Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy51986HD
Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku,...
- 1982
Lovers Lost
Lovers Lost7.11982HD
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a...
- 1968
The Sands of Kurobe
The Sands of Kurobe6.21968HD
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...
- 1987
A Taxing Woman
A Taxing Woman6.81987HD
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...
- 1977
Island of Hell
Island of Hell71977HD
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
- 1975
The International Gang of Kobe
The International Gang of Kobe5.71975HD
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international...