Yōko Umemura Movies

Kenji Mizoguchi is credited as “supervisor” on this rare Japanese genre film, which stars the stunning Isuzu Yamada (Osaka Elegy, Throne...

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

1942 Japanese movie

Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he...

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

A lost film directed by Ushihara Kiyohiko based on a story published in the Mainichi Sunday Newspaper entitled '恋女扇.' It stars a...

A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women...

Based on Matsutaro Kawaguchi's novel "Geido Ichidai Otoko." Considered a lost film.

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

Otane, 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...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

Japanese war film.