Unpei Yokoyama Movies

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Pre-war jidaigeki film from 1936, produced by Uzumasa Hassei Eiga studios

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the...

Jidaigeki from 1940

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...