Yutaka Mimasu

The Straits of Love and Hate

A servant girl is seduced and abandoned by her lover, a man from a higher social class, forcing her to navigate...

The Spy Has Not Died Yet

The Elegant Swordsman

This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a T...

The 26 Martyrs of Japan

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christi...

Zoku aizen katsura

1939 Japanese movie

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

Mistress of a Foreigner

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have sur...

A Living Puppet

A man rises in society by cheating, but the institutions in turn take their revenge.

Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue

Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue is a 1927 black and white Japanese silent film directed by Tomiyasu Ikeda.[1] Th...

Song of Home

Mizoguchi’s 30th film is the earliest surviving example of his work, and his only film of the 1920s to survive...

The Revenge Champion

Lost film, directed by Tomu Uchida. This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the sa...

Masujiro Omura

A story about Ômura Masujirô

The King of Rowing

A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This was shot at...

Kinuyo's First Love

Kinuyo is a daughter of rice cracker shop in downtown. She fell in love with her sister's boyfriend. It is a st...

Town of Love

Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".

Smiling Earth

A lost Mizoguchi film.

The Tree of Love

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with...

Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

Ashes

Otomebashi

Because there was no bridge over the large river flowing between two villages, the villagers had to rely on a r...