Shochiku Kinema Kamata Movies

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth...

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

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

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

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...

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

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

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...

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

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,...

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...