Japanese Movie Listing - O
OK I know the Octagon is a fairly silly story, but it was on TV while I was growing up and I grew sort of fond of it. There aren't many other Japanese (or Japan-related) movies that begin with the letter O.The Octagon (1980)
Chuck Norris plays Scott James, a ninja who must protect a woman from threatening ninja warriors led by his estranged brother Seikura (played by Tadashi Yamashita). He infiltrates their secret compound and they duel to the death.
Odd Obsession (1959) 96m (originally 107m).
Elderly, vain man tempts his beautiful wife into an affair with his young doctor. Uneven. D: Kon Ichikawa.
One Wonderful Sunday (Subarashiki Nichiyobi) (1947)
Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
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Osaka Elegy (1936) 71 m. (Naniwa hika / Naniwa ereji) Osaka Elegy ranks with Sisters of Gion (also released in 1936) as one of Mizoguchi's greatest prewar films, and marked the director's first collaboration with screenwriter Yoshikata Yoda, who would pen most of Mizoguchi's subsequent works. Isuzu Yamada (Sisters of Gion, Kurosawa's Throne of Blood) gives a career performance as Ayako, a telephone operator who enters into an adulterous relationship with her well-off boss in order to help out her debt-ridden family. The illicit affair earns her family the wrath of the boss's wife, and Ayako soon finds herself abandoned by her young fiancé and on a dizzying downward spiral into ruination. Osaka Elegy's final scene -- a direct stare into the camera by actress Yamada -- startled audiences in 1936; the film was banned in Japan in 1940 for "decadent tendencies." Director: Kenji Mizoguchi. Cast: Isuzu Yamada, Eitaro Shindo, Kensaku Hara, Benkei Shiganoya. B&W, In Japanese with English subtitles. [Daniel Richard] |
The Outcast (1962) 118m
Schoolteacher hides his identity as a member of an outcast class until a writer he greatly respects is murdered. Intense drama, well made, fascinating. D: Kon Ichikawa.
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