Yukichi Iwata

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...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

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

A Mother Should Be Loved

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the r...

The Father and His Son

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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.

A Hero of Tokyo

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the ti...

Seven Seas: Virginity Chapter

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

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting...

Reijin

Passion to Soar

Poppy

Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised hi...

Island Girl

Japanese silent film.

Young Master

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

New Woman Question and Answer

Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a lawyer. The...

Aa mujô - Dai ippen: Hôrô no maki

ABC Lifeline

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

The Eternal Heart

The logger Yamato has been raising his daughter alone since his wife died in childbirth. The baron who owns the...

Daphne

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

Shine, Japanese Women

Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly with their...

Cry Cheerfully!

Japanese silent film from 1931.

Victory or Defeat

Japanese film from 1932, adapted from the novel by Kan Kikuchi. The first sound film from director Yasujiro Shi...

The Glory of the Shōwa Era

Japanese silent film from 1928.

The Glory of the Shōwa Era

Japanese silent film from 1928.

My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain

Gubijinsô

The Golden Demon

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealt...

The Cuckoo

Immortal Love

Japanese silent film from 1928.

An Electrician and His Wife

Diary of a Drunkard

The simple and honest elementary school principal Taiga (Iwata) was at a loss after the school's donation money...

Mother of the East

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.