Sôjin Kamiyama

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection fr...

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samu...

The Thief of Bagdad

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

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...

The King of Kings

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with...

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...

The Letter

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

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

Proud Flesh

The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attention...

The Show of Shows

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multip...

The Siege of Osaka

The Siege of Osaka

Okoto and Sasuke

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manserv...

The Bat

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki

Men vs. Women

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

Golden Dawn

Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a...

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

Japanese war movie.

Madame X

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of Fra...

The Devil of Edo

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

Tropic Madness

Herbert Pomeroy's wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankrup...

China Slaver

The Chinese Secret Service sends an undercover agent to investigate reports of an island ruled by a Chinese cri...

The Wanderer

Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city o...

The Unholy Night

When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's...

Housewife Camellia

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his...

The Chinese Parrot

The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The s...

Across the Pacific

Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels...

Patria

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning...

The Sea Beast

Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."

Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his for...

Why Girls Love Sailors

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain...

Chinatown Charlie

A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.

The Golden Demon

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He belie...

Kokumin no chikai

This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support...

East of Suez

After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that he...

Something Always Happens