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Akatsuki
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...
Apart from You
Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
Moth-eaten Spring
Futari shizuka
The Village Bride
Karabotan
The Life of Workers in the Big City
Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.
Eternal Heart
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...
Woman in the Mist
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...
Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter
Chocolate Girl
Sôbô
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...
Burden of Life
A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.
Parent
Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.
Moon Over the Ruins
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
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...
Every-Night Dreams
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...
Love
Directed by Eizo Tanaka. Only 8 minutes of film is known to have survived.
The Lapel Shop
"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
Reijin
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Men vs. Women
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
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
Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho
Living Things