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Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth...

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Early silent film from Hiroshi Shimizu.

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

Japanese silent jidaigeki from 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

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

Early Japanese silent film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Japanese silent film from 1925.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the...

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.