Shochiku Kinema Kamata Movies

Kenji and Chuko travel to Hokkaido as migrant workers and enlist as miners under the strict leadership of Guzuyasu. On the boat journey to Hokkaido,...

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...

The Siege of Osaka

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in...

In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the...

Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

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

A young man torn between love and friendship.