Ryōtarō Mizushima Movies

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Directed by Minoru Murata.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Japanese film from 1929.

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

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

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Directed by Kiyomatsu Hosoyama.

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

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...

Shirō Kuroki, the adopted son of the Yamada family, shares a deep and mutual love with his foster sister, Kinuko Yamada. His commitment to...