続蛇姫様
Aug 14, 1940Drama
Heikuro Imanari
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森と湖のまつり
Nov 26, 1958A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.
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拳銃対拳銃
Jan 22, 1956The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on his late father's enemies.
磯の源太 抱寝の長脇差
Feb 04, 1932Iso no Genta accidentally kills a magistrate and becomes a yakuza. Considered a lost film.
伊那の勘太郎
Jan 03, 1943南国太平記
Aug 11, 1937
蟹工船
Sep 10, 1953Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
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森の石松
Mar 18, 1937
川中島合戰
Nov 30, 1941This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.
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支那の夜
Jan 02, 1940Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese merchant marine officer. Part spy thriller and part Shanghai travelogue, it was part of a popular series known as "Chinese Continental Friendship" made by the occupying Japanese in China.
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右門捕物帖・六番手柄 仁念寺奇談
May 29, 1930An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji kidan (The Samurai Detective, aka The Detective Records of Umon, aka Detective Umon Diary: Exploit Number Six, 1930). Umon on his shining white horse stops a conspiracy against the Shogun. Umon was played by Kanjuro Arashi in this early film, & long after in the post-Occupation jidaigeki revival he reprised the role in Kajiro Yamamoto's Muttsuri Umon torimonocho (1955), helping to launch the renewed interest in such films.
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国定忠次
Feb 02, 1935
河内山宗俊
Apr 30, 1936Un garçon vole un couteau à un vieux samouraï, ignorant sa valeur, déclenchant une étrange chaîne d'événements.
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小笠原壱岐守
Jun 15, 1932
栗山大膳
Nov 12, 1936雁太郎街道
Nov 29, 1934History
