Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido,...

The vast majority of the commercial films made by Kinugasa in the 1920s have, like almost all Japanese films of the period, been lost. Even a...

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...

In the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a prostitute.

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent...

A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji.

Japanese horror movie from 1929.

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the prince's concubines.

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

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...