Tokyo, Japan
The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The s...
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife....
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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 giv...
A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke...
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitiou...
Shinzaemon has been Sukeroku’s enemy ever since Sukeroku fought and defeated gangs from Shinzaemon’s...
Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to hav...
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring r...
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....
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a ...
Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that ...
An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as ...
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the ...
