Tetsu Tsuboi

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the...

In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The...

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.

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

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Shinzaemon has been Sukeroku’s enemy ever since Sukeroku fought and defeated gangs from Shinzaemon’s group at a Kabuki theatre over Agemaki from...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt...

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

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

Bored Hatamoto film #8

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

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...

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder, but are too scared to report it to the police. In the meantime, an innocent man is...

Period film from 1934.

A young vassal is betrayed by his corrupt lord.

A young samurai rescues his beloved from the clutches of a corrupt priest.

Japanese silent film from 1928, co-starring Chojiro Hayashi and up-and-coming actress Kinuyo Tanaka.

A film by Eiichi Koichi depicting peasant uprisings.