Birthday: 1887-02-20
Place of Birth: Mie Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the yea...
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A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's busines...
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Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japane...
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When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of h...
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A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, de...
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The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's...
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A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devo...
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Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a tr...
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A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playbo...
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A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees....
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Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich,...
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After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to ...
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Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
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A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to...
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Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital,...
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"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Pen...
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This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
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Comedy by Kiyohiko Ushihara. Once a full-length feature film, now only 14 minutes remain....
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Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi....
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Japanese silent comedy from 1930. The directorial debut of Hiromasa Nomura....
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Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929)....
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The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to ma...
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The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directe...
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Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly...
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Tsukamoto and Omitsu are close friends, but one day, Tsukamoto becomes fascinated by Ayako, whom he ...
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Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."...
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Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu....
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Japanese silent film from 1926, directed by Heinosuke Gosho and featuring Kinuyo Tanaka....
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Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the f...
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A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparentl...
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