There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and teachers gather from all over the country, including sesame oil sellers and organ grinders. The day before the festival, trouble arises with some horses.
Otae
腕は確かだが、飲兵衛で喧嘩に明け暮れていた中山安兵衛。その安兵衛の苦手とする叔父の菅野六郎左衛門が、村上庄左衛門とのトラブルから、高田の馬場で果し合いをすることになってしまう。危急を知った安兵衛、一散に駈けつける。後の堀部安兵衛一世一代の剣陣の火ぶたは切られた！
Sachiko Murai
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth destined for Buddhist priesthood; it concluded with their separation.
Sayako Inoue
Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.
A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief
Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honourable side of himself, and maybe some form of redemption.
A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief
Yamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. The Life of Bangaku
