Ichiro Yuki Movies

In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the...

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...

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

Japanese silent film from 1933.

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

It is considered to be a lost film.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

1958 Japanese movie