Kenji Oyama Movies

A 1937 Japanese film.

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido,...

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an...

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

Three men fall in love with the same young girl who works in a tonkatsu restaurant in the Shitamachi district of Tokyo.

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United...

Adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same name.

Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor...

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.