Kinuko Wakamizu

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Asagiri

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuko Wakamizu

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin'yō Nara

Shinzaemon has been Sukeroku’s enemy ever since Sukeroku fought and defeated gangs from Shinzaemon’s group at a Kabuki theatre over...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

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Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

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

"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

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

Japanese horror movie from 1929.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Junosuke Bandô

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joji Oka

A Japanese screwball comedy about the battle between the sexes: two timid men, egged on by their wives, end up in a bitter duel over an expensive...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

A 1948 Japanese film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Usami

The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Furuya

Japanese silent film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joji Oka

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

Japanese Warmovie

Genre: War

Cast: Masao Inoue

Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current Taiwan)...

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Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Fujino

Film by Hiroshi Shimizu, featuring an early role for frequent Ozu and Naruse collaborator Hideko Takamine.

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

Japanese war movie.

Genre: War

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.

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Cast: Kenji Oyama

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second...

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Cast: Michiyo Kogure