Osamu Maruyama Movies

A story loosely based on the affair between Empress Kōken-Shōtoku and the monk Dōkyō, set during the Nara period (710–794...

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...

Movie about biological mothers, foster mothers, and stepmothers.

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

Even the beautiful international port of Yokohama has a seedy underbelly. An action thriller in which a newspaper reporter plunges into a den of vice...

The sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a...

A romantic action drama set in early Meiji-era Hokkaido, centered on a passionate, justice-seeking newspaper reporter who takes on an official...

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

A film depicting a woman who gradually awakens to a new Japanese style of romance, moving away from the old Japanese style.

Twenty years after the father’s death and the mother and child’s separation, when they are reunited, a pistol aimed at the mother glints...

1946 Japanese movie.

A passionate young man who lives for judo, the innocent girl he adores, and a challenge to the judo boss… A major match where love and life...

Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's...