Mariko Okada Movies

Samurai

76/100

Depicts the early life of the legendary warrior Musashi Miyamoto; his years as an aspiring warrior, an outlaw and finally a true samurai.

An Autumn Afternoon

82/100

An aging widower arranges a marriage for his only daughter.

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

75/100

Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

77/100

Musashi Miyamoto is challenged to a duel by a confident swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. He agrees to fight him in a year's time.

Late Autumn

82/100

A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.

Floating Clouds

78/100

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely woman trying to find purpose and stability in a devastated Tokyo.

Eros + Massacre

81/100

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s' students researching Osugi's theories.

Akitsu Springs

77/100

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Eri Eri rema sabakutani

67/100

A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which ... See full summary »

Heroic Purgatory

73/100

An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.

Woman of the Lake

74/100

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

The Affair

72/100

A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother's lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.

Tod im Fahrstuhl

68/100

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police Detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York City. There he is joined by Detective Shuftan, and together they sort out the crime.

Illusion of Blood

68/100

A samurai warrior is haunted by the spirit of his first wife.

A Story Written with Water

73/100

A young man who's about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams and desires unfold simultaneously.

Women in the Mirror

70/100

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.

Farewell to the Summer Light

71/100

A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.

Confessions Among Actresses

71/100

The lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event.

Yagyû bugeichô

67/100

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is ... See full summary »

Spring Dreams

68/100

A homeless man falls ill near a wealthy family's home, who take him in and find themselves dealing with his visiting friends.

Conquest

58/100

Appassionata

71/100

Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school.

Saraba Rabauru

71/100

When It Rains, It Pours

78/100

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