Jun Arai

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in...

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in...

Apart from You

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentfu...

Burden of Life

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the...

Useless Button

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However,...

Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Y...

A Brother and His Younger Sister

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

Love

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who proj...

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki

Sôbô

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

Men vs. Women

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

Moon Over the Ruins

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Every-Night Dreams

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-hu...

Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative...

Moth-eaten Spring

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

Reijin

The Dancing Girl of Izu

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

The Big City: Labor

Woman in the Mist

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but w...

Chocolate Girl

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

The Village Bride

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

Youth, Why Do You Cry?

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

Living Things

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

Young Master

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female...

Brave Love

Japanese film from 1925.

Eternal Heart

Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met th...

Parent

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

Symphony of Youth

Japanese silent film from 1928.

天龍下れば

Oh! Carefree, Aren't You?

Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior dir...

Daphne

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.

The Lapel Shop

Directed by Eizo Tanaka. Only 8 minutes of film is known to have survived.

ABC Lifeline: Fujieda Chapter

First chapter of Tasujiro Shimazu's ABC Lifeline, released two months before ABC Lifeline: Part 1 and ABC Lifel...

Thank You for Your Hard Work

Japanese silent comedy from 1928.

The Basement

Japanese silent film from 1927.