Eiji Takagi

Smiling Earth

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Directed by Minoru Murata.

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.

A Japanese silent film

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating duel takes place on a night of fireworks.

A Living Puppet

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi's typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title song, "Tokyo March." (Sadly, only 24 minutes of the film now survive.)

Daichi wa hohoemu dainihen

Daichi wa hohoemu daisanpen

Directed by Minoru Murata.

Lost film, directed by Tomu Uchida. This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the samurai Bushido, which has become obsolete and turned into an empty form during the period of feudalism.

Silent Japanese film.

Silent Japanese film.

Gion Shigure

Musume juroku

Yamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. The Life of Bangaku

Silent Japanese film.

Jihishincho

Matenro sôtohen

A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and Shimura Takashi

Theater of Life: Youth Version

Zuku ôoka seidan mazo kaiketsu-hen

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

The Woman and the Pirate