Veteran filmmaker Kihachi Okamoto revives his similarly named 1960s television series about happy-go-lucky avenger-for-hire...
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Director, Screenwriter
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2002
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Former assistant director to Sogo Ishii, Akira Ogata makes his debut with this complex coming of age drama about a pair of...
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2000
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Veteran director Kihachi Okamoto spins this genre-bending samurai western. Kamijo Kenkichi (played by gymnast Hiroyuki...
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Director
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1995
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Kihachi Okamoto directs his 37th film with this sweet-natured satire about bungling cops and tax scams. The story opens with...
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Director
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1991
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Set in the late 19th century, a shipwrecked trio of African-American Dixieland jazz musicians find themselves in war-torn...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1987
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A group of old men take over an empty house and proclaim it to be a new "country" they have founded, called Yama. ("Yamato"...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1982
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Samurai Assassin and Japan's Longest Day director Kihachi Okamoto offers a vivid dramatization of the bloodiest battle ever...
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Director
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1971
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In Zatoichi vs. Yojimbo, one of many Japanese samurai films starring the blind swordsman Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu), he has to...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1970
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In this samurai tale, a brave warrior is told by the newly restored emperor that he must return to his home village and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1969
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A clever injunction against war, this film by director Kihachi Okamoto centers on the character of a dedicated, old-fashioned...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1968
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A pair of luckless would-be warriors find themselves caught in the middle of a skirmish between rival gangsters in this...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1968
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Twenty years after the end of World War II, international agents try to apprehend the world's largest diamond in this...
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Director
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1967
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In this epic Japanese samurai adventure, a bloodthirsty young fighter (Tatsuya Nakadai) kills a man in competition and is...
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Director
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1967
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This star-studded and relatively lavishly produced fact-based war drama, set in 1945 Japan during WW II, chronicles the...
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Director
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1967
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In this Japanese war movie, a rebellious war hero disobeys orders. For his punishment, the fellow is sent to the Chinese...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1966
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A ronin seeking to redeem his wandering status by gaining entry into one of the great houses takes part in a plot to...
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Director
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1965
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In this Japanese WW II drama set in northern China near the war's end, a youthful officer disregards advice and launches an...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1963
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In this Japanese samurai adventure, a brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1963
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In this patriotic Japanese WW II drama, the army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1961
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