Sōtarō Okada

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

Reijin

Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her to investigate a secret club for wealthy voyeurs. Considered to be a lost film.

Yama no senroban

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

Japanese contemporary drama from 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.