Eiko Takamatsu Movies

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...

Hiroo Ikeda movie

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

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

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father,...

Weed with Flowers

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

It is considered to be a lost film.

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

Japanese silent film.

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

It is considered to be a lost film.

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

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

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

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...