Acting
Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son. Heartbroken, Kan’ichi becomes a moneylender, and years later their paths cross again under changed circumstances. Adapted from a popular serialized novel of the same name.
Japanese silent film from 1929.
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.
A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.
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Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.
When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.
After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to move in with one of the former's children, each of whom is scarcely happy to accommodate.
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.
A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over something trivial, and her wife runs away from home, causing a fuss, but she returns to normal. Selected by Kinema Junpo as the 5th-best Japanese movie of 1926.
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.
Based on the Sakatayama double suicide
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
It is considered to be a lost film.
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romance of Yushima.
Japanese war movie.
