Masao Oda
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.73 |
| Birthday | 1908-01-07 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 織田政雄, |
1963
High and Low
8.323/855
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his servants son is kidnapped
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High and Low
1958
Island of Fury
0/0
Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.
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Island of Fury
1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
7.177/31
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various task...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
1958
Points and Lines
4/1
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the trut...
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Points and Lines
1954
A Billionaire
5.7/3
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
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A Billionaire
1956
Nikoyon monogatari
0/0
Japanese drama film.
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Nikoyon monogatari
1957
Eight Hours of Terror
7.538/13
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
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Eight Hours of Terror
1958
Summer Clouds
7.5/13
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns ou...
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Summer Clouds
1962
A Wanderer's Notebook
7.2/10
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – P...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
1962
A Carpenter and Children
0/1
A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning comb...
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A Carpenter and Children
1964
Roadside Stone
6.5/4
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The yea...
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Roadside Stone
1961
Run, Genta, Run!
7.5/2
A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.
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Run, Genta, Run!
1960
Spring Dreams
5.8/6
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous frien...
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Spring Dreams
1956
Meiken monogatari
0/0
Japanese film.
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Meiken monogatari
1960
The Twilight Story
8/1
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at...
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The Twilight Story
1961
Zero Focus
6.6/17
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...
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Zero Focus
1960
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
7.976/103
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful ar...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1964
Lead Tombstone
4/3
LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing...
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Lead Tombstone
1959
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
5.7/6
The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from...
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
1960
The Lost Alibi
5.2/6
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lo...
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The Lost Alibi
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
0/0
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...
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Beyond the Green Hills
1957
Harbor Rats
0/0
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed...
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Harbor Rats
1964
The Third Ninja
7/1
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
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The Third Ninja
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
5.7/7
Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
1960
The Gambling Samurai
6.3/6
Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying Kunisada's...
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The Gambling Samurai
1960
Blood Is Dry
6.5/11
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own ad...
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Blood Is Dry
1964
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
7/11
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. A...
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
1961
Snow in the South Seas
0/0
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
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Snow in the South Seas
1955
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
7.348/33
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people th...
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Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
1957
Black River
6.9/29
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell t...
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Black River
1961
Fine Man
0/0
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the evil...
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Fine Man
1963
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
6.978/23
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice the...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
1962
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
7.4/11
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle aft...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
1961
The Orphan Brother
6.6/7
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mothe...
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The Orphan Brother
1959
Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
7.5/4
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy milit...
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Lucky Adventurer Nobunaga Oda
1956
Tengoku wa doko da
0/0
Japanese drama.
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Tengoku wa doko da
1963
Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
10/1
A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.
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Kyu-chan, Draw Your Sword
1960
The Master Spearman
5.2/4
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to h...
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The Master Spearman
1960
The River Fuefuki
7.542/12
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over...
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The River Fuefuki
1962
An Autumn Afternoon
7.836/274
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest...
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An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Nippon no obaachan
0/0
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...
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Nippon no obaachan
1960
Mahiru no wana
0/0
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job afte...
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Mahiru no wana
1955
Tales of Ginza
6.85/10
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who...
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Tales of Ginza
1961
Happiness of Us Alone
9/5
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...
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Happiness of Us Alone
1960
The Angry Sea
0/0
A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.
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The Angry Sea
1962
Mark of Blood
6/1
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
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Mark of Blood
1954
The Street Without Sun
0/0
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The Street Without Sun
1962
Woman of Design
6.5/2
Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.
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Woman of Design
1954
Tomoshibi
0/0
Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr Matsukuma although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is...
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Tomoshibi
1958
The Child Writers
0/0
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The Child Writers
1958
Akutoku
0/0
A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi S...
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Akutoku
1956
Frankie the Milkman
9/1
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a di...
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Frankie the Milkman
1959
I Want to Be a Shellfish
0/0
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
1961
City
0/0
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City
1961
The Last War
6.3/9
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
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The Last War
1961
A Good Man, A Good Day
0/0
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to ma...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
1956
Fountainhead
5.8/8
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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Fountainhead
1956
Hi no tori
0/0
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she perform...
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Hi no tori
1960
Police Precinct Part 13
0/0
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined...
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Police Precinct Part 13
1961
Fateful Birthplace
0/0
A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
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Fateful Birthplace
1963
Itsudemo yume o
0/0
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
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Itsudemo yume o
1964
The Desperate
7/2
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo (H...
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The Desperate
1960
Sotobori murder case
0/0
A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizing they're both at a brink in their lives they'll...
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Sotobori murder case
1956
The Baby Carriage
0/0
Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to b...
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The Baby Carriage
1963
Rififi in Tokyo
5.6/7
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
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Rififi in Tokyo
1957
Hadaka no Machi
0/0
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Hadaka no Machi
1963
A Woman's Life
7.1/12
A woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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A Woman's Life
1962
情熱の詩人啄木
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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情熱の詩人啄木
1963
Beautiful Calendar
0/0
Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just...
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Beautiful Calendar
1958
The Invisible Wall
0/0
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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The Invisible Wall
1960
Shinran
0/0
A biographical movie about Shinran
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Shinran
1960
越後獅子祭
0/0
1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo
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越後獅子祭
1956
Dotanba
6/1
Dotanba - Last Minute
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Dotanba
1957
Shiroi natsu
0/0
Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post offi...
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Shiroi natsu
1958
The Ballad of Narayama
7.448/77
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in...
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The Ballad of Narayama
1959
Whistling in the morning
0/0
Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's bi...
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Whistling in the morning
1962
Our Failures
0/0
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.
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Our Failures
1962
Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
1962
Kigeki ekimae onsen
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kigeki ekimae onsen
1955
Yukiko
0/0
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Yukiko
1962
Tokyo Bay
7/1
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...
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Tokyo Bay
1959
Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
8.5/2
In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an a...
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Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender
1962
Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
1955
Mune yori mune ni
0/0
Japanese drama
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Mune yori mune ni
1961
Love and the Shop Curtain
0/0
Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 To...
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Love and the Shop Curtain
1963
The Red Water
0/0
Comedy drama film
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The Red Water
1956
Avalanche
0/0
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Avalanche
1962
Satsujin-sha o oe
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Satsujin-sha o oe
1960
Shinran, Part II
0/0
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class, w...
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