The best Fumitake Ômura’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Fumitake Ômura’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Fumitake Ômura.
A Carpenter and Children
7.5/10
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 that grows between the carpenter, the woman and the children making this into a true masterpiece.
The Escape
Film about the 2-26 Incident.
Doggie March
6.4/10
An animated collaboration between Osamu Tezuka and Toei Animation.
Tale of Army Brutality
7.2/10
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ruthless yakuza gang is also trying to get their share of the project and attempts to sabotage the work. After the old man dies, his son (Sonny Chiba) and daughter (Junko Fuji) try to complete the project. Tsuruta joins them while also falling in love with a local woman working in a bar (after all, Tsuruta always was more of a lover than his stoic colleague Takakura).
Tale of Japanese Burglars
7.6/10
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
7/10
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.
Four Hours of Terror
6.1/10
Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.
Sasuke and His Comedians
6.3/10
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from a meteor that crashed onto the Earth…
Devil's Nursery Rhyme
6.2/10
1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
A Fishwife's Tale
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successful business.
Devotion to Railway
7.1/10
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
The Sand City in Manchuria
6.4/10
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
Game of Chance
6.7/10
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
Hell's Kitchen
5.4/10
Pleasant Company
Police Agency Story: Devil's Message Board
The 8th work of the "Keishicho Monogatari" series. The first investigation section over the robbery and murder of a continuous taxi driver shows an activity covered with blood, sweat and mud. The Metropolitan Police Department's investigative team was at a loss for killing taxi drivers, which occurred four times every day. The driver's corpse was found in the trunk of a taxi that accidentally hit a tree in an attempt to avoid a collision with a police car. Two of the three men running away from the car were arrested. A montage photo of the remaining one criminal is made, and a man with five criminal records emerges on the investigation line.
What Price Love
An anti-drug story happened in Japan.
The Boss
