Yōko Umemura

A story about Ômura Masujirô

В основе картины — популярная легенда о том, как сорок семь самураев сделали харакири, отстаивая честь своего господина.

A Man of the Arts

Followup film to Osaka Elegy - Osaka Woman

Актер театра Кабуки претерпел неудачу, молодая женщина указала ему на все ошибки и помогла справиться с ними. Она привела его к успеху, однако любовь, возникшая между ними, счастья героям не принесет.

A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko Kinema between 1937-40 featuring Japan's first scream queen, Sumiko Suzuki. Here she plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When one day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro's house by his lost cat Kuro, she becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gifts Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue's hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo's younger sister Onui avenge her sister's murder.

Кинолента навеяна мотивами повести русского писателя Александра Куприна «Яма». Гион — один из районов Киото, в котором расположены так называемые веселые дома. Здесь живут две сестры-гейши Умэкити и Омота. Старшая сестра — истинная гейша, она чтит законы, существующие в этой профессии, и не меняет партнеров. Но младшая сестра, одержимая желанием заработать как можно больше денег, не гнушается ничем.

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

У молодой телефонистки есть жених, но ей мало того внимания, которое он оказывает. Суженый – слабый и безвольный, лишенный каких бы то ни было амбиций человек, не способный помочь ей и ее семье. Для того, чтобы спасти отца в критической ситуации, девушка становится содержанкой владельца фармацевтической компании. Через некоторое время ситуация повторяется: ей вновь нужны деньги: на сей раз, чтобы помочь брату. Она снова идет в содержанки. Пройдет время, и те люди, ради которых она жертвовала собой, осуждают ее. Аяко вынуждена расстаться с ними навсегда...

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.

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.

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.

Kenji Mizoguchi is credited as “supervisor” on this rare Japanese genre film, which stars the stunning Isuzu Yamada (Osaka Elegy, Throne of Blood) as a professional criminal, part con woman and part martial artist, who falls in love with a young man from the straight world.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931

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.

Немой фильм в жанре исторического боевика. Продолжение истории, начатой в фильме 1928 года «Судья Оока. Новый вариант».

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

Silent Japanese film.

Silent Japanese film.

Silent Japanese film.

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.

Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.