Movies: Kaichi Yamamoto

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity....

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts....

Shizuko hesitates between two suitors. While the one she marries commits suicide following a scandal, the other refuses to marry out of love for her. Considered a lost film....

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 published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007....

1938 Theater of Life adaptation....

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

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An old potter despairs of having only two daughters and no son, hoping his apprentice will one day bring him an heir. The apprentice meets the eldest daughter but is disgusted by her. He decides to marry the younger daughter, who is in love with anot...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass...

Otane, the daughter of a thread shop in Ryogoku, is in love with Sumio, the son of an ivory craftsman who lives nearby. The two are united in a tatami room on the second floor of a soba restaurant. Soon Sumio goes to study in Paris, but during that t...

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate....

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A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani....

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Directed by Eizo Tanaka....

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki....

An adaptation of Anna Christie, considered lost....

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki....

A Japanese silent drama about two farmers...

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took the direct approach that the Dutch had been unwilling to take, the ruling Shogun knew that the dynasty ...