Shin'yō Nara Movies

Early silent film from Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese film from 1925.

Early Japanese silent film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

1945 Japanese movie

A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be...

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

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

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

The 1929 Japanese film "Mother" which helped child actress Hideko Takamine become a star.

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

Japanese war movie.

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...

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

1963 Japanese movie

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her...