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...

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...

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

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 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...

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

Japanese silent film from 1930.

1958 Japanese movie

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

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 1933.

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

After being separated from their parents in childhood and left as orphans, Kyōko and Namiko were raised with the love of their aunt and grew...

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

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

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Japanese silent film from 1930.

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese film from 1932.

1965 pinku directed by Sôjirô Motoki, under the name of Tamizô Shibuya.