Yoshie Nakagawa

A semidocumentary film about female pearl divers and fishermen.

En el Tokyo de 1885, Kikunosuke Onoue, hijo de un importante actor, descubre, desolado, que es aplaudido únicamente por ser el heredero de su padre y que, en realidad, el público se mofa de sus interpretaciones. La única persona que se atreve a ser sincera con él es Otoku, la niñera de los hijos de su hermano. pero precisamente por ello es despedida, y a Kikunosuke le prohiben verla por temor a los rumores que se desatarían por su relación con una sirvienta.

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film.

Period film from 1934.

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 feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.

Rikiya is blinded in a fight after falling in love with a courtesan. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, he goes back home to his sister Okiku, who become a prostitute to pay for his treatment.

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the prince's concubines.

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...

Un marinero se emplea como ordenanza en un manicomio para liberar a su esposa, que se encuentra recluida luego de que intentara suicidarse y matar a su bebé. Esta es una restauración de la copia hecha por el mismo Kinugasa en la década del 70. Kinugasa redescubrió su copia personal, supuestamente en un cobertizo de su jardín y escondida en una maceta. Para prepararla para un nuevo lanzamiento, quitó algunas de las escenas más convencionales, así como eliminó todos los intertítulos, sin duda para hacer la película aún más "avant-garde" de lo que había sido. No hay constancia de que exista una versión original.

Nanjo Mikisaburo is a young samurai trying to restore his ruined family to its past glory. Enduring the contempt and disdain of high-ranking samurai, Mikisaburo devotes himself to the way of the warrior, mastering the literary and martial arts. His master Kurahashi Jupeita's daughter Misao feels for Mikisahuro who maintains his pride in the face of the arrogant samurai's scorn.