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While returning by boat to Japan, Yoshie Fujiwara meets a rich woman who suggests him to become a singer thanks to an impresario friend of hers.
Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.
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When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.
A lost Mizoguchi 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.
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.
"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her mixed-race son." - Alexander Jacoby (Oxford Brookes University)
