Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

An adaptation of Anna Christie, considered lost.

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

An old potter despairs of having only two daughters and no son, hoping his apprentice will one day bring him an heir. The apprentice meets the eldest...

The earliest existing version (incomplete) of Mito Komon history. It was one of the most famous (and most filmed) Jidaigeki stories. Lord Mito is the...

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took...

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

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

A Japanese silent drama about two farmers

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.