Masao Oda

AKA:
0.3172

1908-01-07

Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {99}

Imoya's Old Man

1961-10-08 6.2

The Last War

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers. ...
Genre :Drama, Science Fiction

1961-08-13 0

A Good Man, A Good Day

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, ...
Genre :Comedy

Ikushima's father (uncredited)

1956-02-26 5.8

Fountainhead

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply. ...
Genre :Drama

First Executor at Tax Office

1963-03-01 8.344

High and Low

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

1963-11-16 7.1

A Woman's Life

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son. ...
Genre :Drama

1956-06-14 6

Phoenix

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attra ...
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Yasuko's Father

1960-06-07 0

Police Precinct Part 13

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

1961-09-06 0

Fateful Birthplace

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino. ...
Genre :Drama

1963-02-11 0

Itsudemo yume o

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor. ...
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1962-03-04 0

情熱の詩人啄木

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1963-08-11 0

Beautiful Calendar

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just started, and a chemistry teacher Murao who she res ...
Genre :

1958-10-15 0

The Invisible Wall

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

1960-06-21 0

Shinran

A biographical movie about Shinran ...
Genre :Drama, History, Adventure

1960-02-26 0

越後獅子祭

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo ...
Genre :

1956-11-10 6

Dotanba

Dotanba - Last Minute ...
Genre :Drama

Zenpachi

1957-07-14 7.2

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—bu ...
Genre :Comedy

1957-07-23 0

Shiroi natsu

Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post office, this youthfully bright and humorous story depi ...
Genre :Drama

One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)

1958-06-01 7.5

The Ballad of Narayama

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members ...
Genre :Drama

Minoru's father

1959-03-04 0

Whistling in the morning

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bill and gave up going to high school. His friends h ...
Genre :Drama

1954-11-22 5.7

A Billionaire

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1962-09-01 0

Our Failures

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-07-07 0

Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun

1962 Japanese movie ...
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Detective Koshiki

1964-04-18 7

The Desperate

A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1962-07-29 0

Kigeki ekimae onsen

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1955-08-03 0

Yukiko

Genre :Drama

1960-03-25 0

Sotobori murder case

A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizing they're both at a brink in their lives they'll start falling for each other against their odds. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1962-05-27 7

Tokyo Bay

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

1959-07-04 8.5

Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an armistice. When they get there, peace has been decl ...
Genre :War

1962-09-08 0

Saotome-ka no musume-tachi

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1956-01-21 0

The Baby Carriage

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to being regarded as an outcast, the heroine sets abou ...
Genre :Drama

Kan

1963-03-29 5.7

Rififi in Tokyo

Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Drama

Zen-san

1955-12-06 0

Mune yori mune ni

Japanese drama ...
Genre :Drama

1961-04-28 0

Love and the Shop Curtain

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Be ...
Genre :Drama

1963-05-03 0

The Red Water

Comedy drama film ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1956-03-22 0

Avalanche

Genre :Drama

1962-12-12 0

Satsujin-sha o oe

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1960-09-27 0

Shinran, Part II

Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class, was placed in a monastary on Mount Hiei when still ...
Genre :Drama, History

1957-07-23 0

Hadaka no Machi

Genre :

1958-09-02 7.5

Summer Clouds

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her olde ...
Genre :Drama

Fumiko's father

1962-09-29 7.2

A Wanderer's Notebook

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest perf ...
Genre :Drama

1962-06-10 0

A Carpenter and Children

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning combination of drama and humor. The warm friendship th ...
Genre :Drama

Tadasuke

1964-06-14 6.5

Roadside Stone

The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese villag ...
Genre :Drama

1961-11-22 7.5

Run, Genta, Run!

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother. ...
Genre :Family, Drama

Takeuchi

1960-01-03 5.8

Spring Dreams

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends. ...
Genre :Comedy

1956-06-19 0

Meiken monogatari

Japanese film. ...
Genre :Family

1958-02-08 0

Island of Fury

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat. ...
Genre :Drama

1956-09-11 0

Nikoyon monogatari

Japanese drama film. ...
Genre :Drama

1960-08-28 8

The Twilight Story

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. ...
Genre :Drama

Yoshizo Yashiro

1960-01-15 8

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey co ...
Genre :Drama

1961-03-19 6.6

Zero Focus

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some s ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

1958-11-11 6

Points and Lines

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide. ...
Genre :Crime

1964-09-01 4

Lead Tombstone

LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offending American soldier in the back with a ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Stationmaster

1957-03-08 7.3

Eight Hours of Terror

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers. ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

Kozo Sugiyama

1960-03-13 5.2

The Lost Alibi

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused ...
Genre :Thriller

1959-09-13 5.7

Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka

The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from his employer to redeem her. Hunted criminals, the ...
Genre :Romance

1957-08-21 0

Harbor Rats

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed by arrogant captain and his officers. The crews c ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1963-01-03 0

Beyond the Green Hills

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled f ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1964-03-01 7

The Third Ninja

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Comedy, Family, Adventure

1959-03-29 5.7

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan. ...
Genre :Drama

Niuemon

1960-03-28 6.3

The Gambling Samurai

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's family. A final tragedy leads Kunisada to join wi ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action

Kichin Innkeeper

1964-01-01 7

Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Mu ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1961-09-29 0

Snow in the South Seas

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

1960-10-09 6.5

Blood Is Dry

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertisin ...
Genre :Drama

1957-10-23 6.9

Black River

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1961-06-11 0

Fine Man

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the evil, he becomes a fine man. ...
Genre :Adventure

1955-02-27 7.4

Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Gohei

1963-04-28 7

Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords. ...
Genre :History, Action, Drama

Cheap hotel's owner

1962-11-17 7.4

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philos ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1961-07-19 6.1

The Orphan Brother

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cru ...
Genre :History, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure

1959-10-25 7.5

Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda

Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy military governor with land holdings in Owari province. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Adventure

1956-04-23 0

Tengoku wa doko da

Japanese drama. ...
Genre :Drama

1963-08-31 10

Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza. ...
Genre :Comedy

Kichibei

1960-05-15 5.2

The Master Spearman

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to his family by the Shogun. The film critiques the in ...
Genre :Drama

1960-10-19 7.5

The River Fuefuki

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

Watanabe

1962-11-18 7.9

An Autumn Afternoon

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her. ...
Genre :Drama

1962-01-03 0

Nippon no obaachan

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was lookin ...
Genre :Comedy

1960-12-18 0

Mahiru no wana

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job b ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Art Dealer Iwai

1955-09-14 6.8

Tales of Ginza

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-01-15 9

Happiness of Us Alone

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys. ...
Genre :Drama

1960-10-16 0

The Angry Sea

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman. ...
Genre :Drama

Sajibei

1962-10-12 6

Mark of Blood

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil. ...
Genre :Crime, Adventure

1954-06-24 0

The Street Without Sun

Genre :Drama

Inui

1962-01-28 6.5

Woman of Design

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm. ...
Genre :Drama

1954-06-22 0

Tomoshibi

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is forced to leave. After his departure there is gr ...
Genre :Drama

Father

1958-08-23 0

The Child Writers

Genre :Drama

Osaka Yozaburo

1958-02-19 0

Akutoku

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi Shin, a well-known actor who also demonstrated his ...
Genre :

Tax Collector 2

1956-12-05 9

Frankie the Milkman

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most ...
Genre :Comedy

1959-04-12 10

I Want to Be a Shellfish

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. ...
Genre :

1961-10-14 0

City

Genre :

Hasegawa Lawyer

1959-10-06 0

A Killed Stewardess: White or Black

Genre :Mystery, Thriller

1963-11-01 6

A House in the Quarter

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to serve Takamatsu, one of the brothel’s top customers. Bu ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1960-04-05 0

White Cliffs

1960 Toei film. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1961-11-12 0

Different Sons

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden unemployment later in life causes friction among the ...
Genre :Drama, Family

1961-02-08 0

Hidden Fangs

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch. ...
Genre :

1960-11-13 0

Chikuhō no kodomotachi

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines. ...
Genre :Drama

1959-11-22 0

The Counterfeiters

Genre :

1961-02-01 0

The Preacher of Love

1961 Japanese movie ...
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1961-02-13 0

Hijō no otoko

1961 Japanese movie ...
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1961-02-15 0

八州血煙り笠

1961 Japanese movie ...
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