Akiko Chihaya

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,...

Release : 1933.04.01
Popularity : 0.657

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...

Release : 1927.01.01
Popularity : 0.535

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

Release : 1928.01.04
Popularity : 0.358

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

Release : 1931.05.05
Popularity : 0.857

Release : 1936.01.16
Popularity : 0.182

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...

Release : 1928.05.11
Popularity : 5.431

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

Release : 1930.01.05
Popularity : 0.361

Japanese horror movie from 1929.

Release : 1929.01.01
Popularity : 0.414

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

Release : 1969.11.14
Popularity : 2.437

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

Release : 1928.02.10
Popularity : 0.604

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

Release : 1935.06.27
Popularity : 1.625

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...

Release : 1932.03.01
Popularity : 2.006