1932

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki

10/1

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1927

Karakuri musume

9/1

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Karakuri musume

1928

The Village Bride

8/1

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

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The Village Bride

1926

Useless Button

0/0

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over somethi...

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Useless Button

1937

The Trio's Engagements

7/1

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

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The Trio's Engagements

1932

Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

6.5/22

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

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Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth?

1930

Marching On

10/1

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 the local...

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Marching On

1933

The Boss's Son at College

7.5/2

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 manufa...

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The Boss's Son at College

1935

Okoto and Sasuke

6.75/4

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 Jun...

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Okoto and Sasuke

1930

Pure Love

7/1

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

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Pure Love

1930

Love and Power

9/1

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

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Love and Power

1941

Notes of an Itinerant Performer

7.4/5

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 died, and now...

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Notes of an Itinerant Performer

1937

The Golden Demon

6/5

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 becom...

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The Golden Demon

1937

Vermilion and Green

5.3/3

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

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Vermilion and Green

1932

Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

8/2

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 S...

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Seven Seas: Chastity Chapter

1942

The Spy Has Not Died Yet

0/0

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The Spy Has Not Died Yet

1941

Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

6.941/34

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...

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Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family

1937

The Lights of Asakusa

6/6

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

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The Lights of Asakusa

1935

Burden of Life

6.625/8

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.

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Burden of Life

1939

Warm Current

5.25/4

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 daughter...

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Warm Current

1933

The Dancing Girl of Izu

6.667/3

"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...

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The Dancing Girl of Izu

1932

The Loyal 47 Ronin

0/0

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 f...

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The Loyal 47 Ronin

1927

Kaihin no joô

0/0

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

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Kaihin no joô

1932

Tengoku ni musubu koi

9/1

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

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Tengoku ni musubu koi

1943

Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

0/0

Japanese war movie.

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Air Raid of the Enemy Plane

1927

The Basement

0/0

Japanese silent film from 1927.

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The Basement

1927

Madame Pearl

0/0

Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi.

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Madame Pearl

1929

Triumphant Song of the Mountain

0/0

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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Triumphant Song of the Mountain

1929

The Father and His Son

10/1

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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The Father and His Son

1930

The Beating

0/0

Japanese silent comedy from 1930. The directorial debut of Hiromasa Nomura.

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The Beating

1930

The Big City: Explosion

0/0

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).

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The Big City: Explosion

1933

天龍下れば

0/0

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天龍下れば

1930

Youth, Why Do You Cry?

0/0

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

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Youth, Why Do You Cry?

1931

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

7/1

The 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 lum...

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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

1931

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

8/1

The 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 lum...

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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

1931

Sisters: Part 1

0/0

Japanese silent film from 1931.

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Sisters: Part 1

1931

Sisters: Part 2

7/1

Japanese silent film from 1931.

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Sisters: Part 2

1932

The Golden Demon

0/0

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son. Heartbroken, Kan’ichi...

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The Golden Demon

1932

The Sun Rises from the East

7/1

The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.

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The Sun Rises from the East

1932

Shine, Japanese Women

10/1

Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly with their sights set on the Los Angeles Olympics...

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Shine, Japanese Women

1933

The Cheerleading Captain's Love

8/1

Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he meets at the home of Miyajima.

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The Cheerleading Captain's Love

1933

Clear and Cloudy

0/0

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."

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Clear and Cloudy

1933

Before the Wedding

0/0

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

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Before the Wedding

1933

Daphne

0/0

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.

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Daphne

1934

Mother of the East

7/1

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Mother of the East

1926

Torrent

9/1

Japanese silent film from 1926, directed by Heinosuke Gosho and featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.

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Torrent

1926

Young Master

0/0

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

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Young Master

1934

The Genealogy of Women

10/1

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romanc...

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