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Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.
Honoo no sora
Directed by Kiyomatsu Hosoyama.
On the Verge of Spiritual Light
Umi mo yusha
Arashi no naka no shojo
Kare to Tokyo
Surging Waves
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Moken no himitsu
A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
Haha o tataeru uta
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...
Sasaki Kojiro
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 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
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...
So Goes My Love
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...
Sumida River
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,...
A Certain Woman
"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
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
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
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...
The Groom Talks in His Sleep
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’...
Family Diary
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
Family Meeting
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...
Lady Doctor Kinuyo
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
Vermilion and Green
A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.
Parent
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Men vs. Women
Japanese silent film.
Island Girl
Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.
Anguish of a Human Being
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...
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
Daini no shuppatsu
Directed in 1921
Winter Camellia
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
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
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...
A Brother and His Younger Sister
Directed by Minoru Murata.
Eikichi the Chauffeur
A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.
The Living Corpse