Film★ 7.51933The Feast of GionA sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.Open details →
Film★ 7.31933The Water MagicianTaki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.Open details →
Film★ 6.81931Tokyo ChorusDuring the Depression, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is sacked for defending an older colleague.Open details →
Film★ 8.01931The Sorrow of the Beautiful WomanTwo people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.Open details →
Film★ 7.01931Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.Open details →
Film★ 8.01931Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.Open details →
Film★ 6.01931The Lady and the BeardGraduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.Open details →
Film★ 8.01930Young LadyLost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.Open details →
Film1930Youth, Why Do You Cry?A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.Open details →
Film★ 6.31930That Night's WifeIn Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.Open details →
Sonno JoiFilm★ 4.51927Sonno JoiFor nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took the direct approach that the Dutch had been unwilling to take, the ruling Shogun knew that the dynasty was over. As the shogun began to open up to the outside world, the Sonno Joi movement called for this to be reversed...Open details →
JihishinchoFilm★ 7.01927JihishinchoShizuko hesitates between two suitors. While the one she marries commits suicide following a scandal, the other refuses to marry out of love for her. Considered a lost film.Open details →
Film★ 9.01926The Woman Who Touched The LegsA twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.Open details →
Film★ 8.01926A Paper Doll's Whisper of SpringOtane, the daughter of a thread shop owner in Ryogoku, is in love with Sumio, the son of an ivory craftsman who lives nearby. The two are united in a tatami room on the second floor of a soba restaurant. Soon Sumio goes to study in Paris, but during that time Otane realizes that she is pregnant with Sumio's child. Considered a lost film.Open details →
