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Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
Karakuri musume
The Village Bride
Karabotan
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
The Trio's Engagements
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?
A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...
Marching On
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...
The Boss's Son at College
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...
Okoto and Sasuke
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Pure Love
Love and Power
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...
Notes of an Itinerant Performer
A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...
The Golden Demon
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
Vermilion and Green
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...
Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
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...
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....
The Lights of Asakusa
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 unwanted.
Burden of Life
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...
Warm Current
"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...
The Dancing Girl of Izu
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Comedy by Kiyohiko Ushihara. Once a full-length feature film, now only 14 minutes remain.
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