Ryōtarō Mizushima

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ureo Egawa

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Cast: Mariko Aoyama

Japanese silent film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

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Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeko Aizome

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Cast: Fumiko Katsuragi

Directed in 1921

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Cast: Masao Inoue

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shūji Sano

Directed by Minoru Murata.

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Cast: Kōichi Katsuragi

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

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Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

Directed by Kiyomatsu Hosoyama.

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Cast: Kōichi Katsuragi

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mei Kashiwa

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Cast: Denmei Suzuki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōtarō Mizushima

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Cast: Denmei Suzuki

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

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Cast: Shusuke Agata

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

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Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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Cast: Michiko Kuwano

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

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Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka