Hideo Takeda

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

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Cast: Atsushi Watanabe

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Cast: Hideo Takeda

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Cast: Tsuzuya Moroguchi

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shūji Sano

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ureo Egawa

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

Genre: War

Cast: Denmei Suzuki

The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce...

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Cast: Mitsugu Fujii

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Takao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Kimura

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Daijirō Natsukawa

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Fujino

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

Comedy by Kiyohiko Ushihara. Once a full-length feature film, now only 14 minutes remain.

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Cast: Denmei Suzuki