Unpei Yokoyama Movies

'Armed Robber Shimizu Sadakicchi' is considered Japan's debut film and came on the heels of the country obtaining its first film camera. It famously...

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.

While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a...

Pre-war jidaigeki film from 1936, produced by Uzumasa Hassei Eiga studios

1957 crime film

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing...

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's...