Actor Kawai Okada: biography, where starred, where to watch

A Legend, or Was It?

Keisuke Kinoshita

Shima Iwashita, Mariko Kaga

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

A Legend, or Was It?

7.6 ⚠️ 1963

Япония, криминал

Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow

Kirio Urayama

Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow

7.3 ⚠️ 1962

Япония, драма

コント55号人類の大弱点

Jun Fukuda

Kinichi Hagimoto, Jiro Sakagami

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses

7.3 ⚠️ 1969

Япония

樺太1945年夏氷雪の門

Mitsuo Murayama

Terumi Niki, Keiko Torii

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.

Karafuto 1945 Summer

7.2 ⚠️ 1974

Япония, драма

壁虎遊龍

Hao Wang

Bruce Li, Ko Hsiang-Ting

Set during China in the 1930's a young Chinese martial artist and Japanese resistance fighter strikes up a friendship with the daughter of a Japanese General leading to lots of intrigue and conflict

Gecko Kung Fu

7.0 ⚠️ 1972

Тайвань, боевик

赤毛

Kihachi Okamoto

Toshirō Mifune, Shima Iwashita

Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials.

Red Lion

6.9 ⚠️ 1969

Япония, боевик

冷面虎

Lo Wei

Kawai Okada, Maria Yi

A young man suspects his father's suicide was actually a murder committed by gangsters. Using his expertise in martial arts, he gets himself hired by the gangsters who he suspects are responsible for his father's death.

A Man Called Tiger

6.2 ⚠️ 1973