Movies: Kaichi Yamamoto

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

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....

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

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

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status. He nevertheless pursues her until her initial disgust breaks down into fondness, then romantic feeling...

1938 Theater of Life adaptation....

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....

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 ...

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master....

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy....

Otane, the daughter of a thread shop owner 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 ...

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

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki....

A Japanese silent drama about two farmers...

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

The earliest existing version (incomplete) of Mito Komon history. It was one of the most famous (and most filmed) Jidaigeki stories. Lord Mito is the sage who wanders the countryside rectifying government corruption along with his faithful attendants...

Directed by Eizo Tanaka....