Movies: Kaichi Yamamoto

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji Revolution. The film has not survived....

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi....

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts....

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity....

The earliest existing version (incomplete) of Mito Komon history. It was one of the most famous (and most filmed) Jidaigeki stories. Lord Mito is the sage who wanders the countryside rectifying government corruption along with his faithful attendants...

An adaptation of Anna Christie, considered lost....

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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....

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani....

The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji Revolution. The film has not survived....

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass...

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki....

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status. He nevertheless pursues her until her initial disgust breaks down into fondness, then romantic feeling...

A Japanese silent drama about two farmers...

1938 Theater of Life adaptation....

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Directed by Eizo Tanaka....

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate....