The best Minoru Oki’s drama movies

Minoru Oki

Minoru Oki

16/12/1923- 30/03/2009
Today we present the best Minoru Oki’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Minoru Oki’s movies.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
7.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 22/04/1972
  • Character: Benma Hidari
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
7.5/10
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
7.3/10
In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

The Chivalrous Life

The Chivalrous Life
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/05/1967
  • Character: Koike
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza gangs.

I Will Buy You

I Will Buy You
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/11/1956
  • Character: Gorô Kurita
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the team the Toyko Flowers.

The Last Kamikaze

The Last Kamikaze
7.5/10
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.

Trials of an Okinawa Village

Trials of an Okinawa Village
6.2/10
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza organization with her employees to help settle things.

Yakuza's Law

Yakuza's Law
6/10
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods.

Shingo's Ten Duels

Shingo's Ten Duels
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1990
  • Character: Yagyu Tajima
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son. When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle in a series of duels that could change the destiny of Japan.

Castle of Owls

Castle of Owls
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 24/03/1963
  • Character: Gohei
Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an assassination attempt to be carried out by the Iga Clan of ninja spies. Master spy Juzo Tsuzura (Ryutaro Otomo) is assigned the task, but first he must defeat a former Iga spy who has become a traitor, and outwit the treacherous woman that is trying to seduce him.

The Kamikaze Guy

The Kamikaze Guy
6.3/10
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.

Yakuza vs. Gang Leader

Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.

Warrior of the Wind

Warrior of the Wind
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 15/01/1964
  • Character: Koriki Denjiro
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find themselves at the center of an intrigue surrounding the legendary land of Yasurai in the mountains of Kumano. Hidden gold, the love of a beautiful Princess, and the approaching evil sword all contribute in bringing you a Ninja action thriller that only the legendary actor Okawa Hashizo and the genius director Kato Tai could produce!

New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2

New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
6.2/10
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock operator.

Stakeout

Stakeout
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/01/1958
  • Character: Takao Yuki, the police detective
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6
6.2/10
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

Bloodiest Flower

Bloodiest Flower
6.7/10
A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining being a predominately male domain. Overcoming the natural hardships, a more serious threat to Tei and her mine, the menacing presence of rival mining gangs who sense her vulnerability... Nihon jokyo-den:ketto midarw-bana is an outstanding drama, highlighted by wonderful characterizations/performances. Yamashita's excellent direction maintains a rich emotional flow from the opening seconds to the last. Intense and bloody encounters punctuate throughout the engaging multi layered tale!

Black Lizard

Black Lizard
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 14/03/1962
  • Character: Kogoro Akechi
Celebrated detective Akechi matches wits with the infamous and devious jewel thief Black Lizard after the criminal orchestrates an elaborate kidnapping.

Prison Gambler

Prison Gambler
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/10/1964
  • Character: Kumagaya
A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series Gambler / Bakuto directed by Shigehiro Ozawa.

A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell

A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/01/1972
  • Character: Tatsutaro
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime groups based in Osaka to war it out and order the Shima to the Onishi group of the branch to expand the territory. Now members of the same yakuza gang are forced to fight each other over territory and honor.

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