Kihachi Okamoto
1923 - 2005Kihachi Okamoto (岡本 喜八 Okamoto Kihachi) was a Japanese film director who worked in several different genres, most memorably in action genres such as jidaigeki and war films.
Japan's Longest Day
Kihachi Okamoto
Seiji Miyaguchi, Rokkō Toura
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
Japan's Longest Day
Fort Graveyard
Kihachi Okamoto
Toshirō Mifune, Makoto Satō
Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His commander, Captain Sakuma, is vicious and dictatorial. Sakuma places Kosugi in charge of training for combat what once was the military band. Kosugi must somehow prepare his inept soldiers for the rigors of combat.
Fort Graveyard
Samurai Assassin
Kihachi Okamoto
Toshirō Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.
Samurai Assassin
Kill!
Kihachi Okamoto
Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsushi Takahashi
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
Kill!
姿三四郎
Kihachi Okamoto
Tomokazu Miura, Kumiko Akiyoshi
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
Sugata Sanshiro
ダイナマイトどんどん
Kihachi Okamoto
Bunta Sugawara, Junko Miyashita
Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the mediation/interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it in a peaceful, *democratic* way, that is, to settle it with a baseball game. Now, with its money and power, The Hashiden group soon recruits a group of gamblers known to be good at baseball from the whole country. So, what is the Okagen Gumi gonna do?
Dynamite Don-Don
The Human Bullet
Kihachi Okamoto
Minori Terada, Naoko Ôtani
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
The Human Bullet
The Age of Assassins
Kihachi Okamoto
Tatsuya Nakadai, Reiko Dan
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.
The Age of Assassins
Operation Sewer Rats
Kihachi Okamoto
Yûzô Kayama, Makoto Satō
Во время Второй мировой войны японская армия терпит большой урон из-за китайских партизан. Рядовой Хаяси едет на новое место службы и по пути знакомится с Бякко — хитрым японским военным, возглавляющим отряд китайцев, перешедших на сторону Японии. Главный соперник Бякко — предводитель китайского партизанского движения Мусо. Помимо Хаяси на линию фронта приезжает сын японского генерала, молодой и неопытный офицер Сэки, который во время первого же задания попадает в плен. Бякко получает приказ — отыскать юношу и доставить его в штаб... Сюжет фильма «Операция "Крыса"» основан на реальных событиях.
Operation Sewer Rats
Procurer of Hell
Kihachi Okamoto
Tatsuya Mihashi, Reiko Dan
Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two women, one of them a young widow with a son. They like him and think that he is an ordinary office worker. One day, Tobe accidentally discovers pictures of an acquaintance, Kanzaburo, with a woman and sets out to blackmail him. He soon finds out that Kanzaburo died in a train accident but things may not be what they seem
Procurer of Hell
