Tokuji Kobayashi Movies

Japanese silent film from 1929.

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

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

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima.

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

1926 jidaigeki (period drama) directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire

The debut film of Hiroshi Shimizu is about a man who, while searching for his lost daughter, encounters a young woman and her mother who are also...

Hiroo Ikeda movie

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...