Movies: Yoshie Nakagawa

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns t...

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife....

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a m...

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 feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier...

Period film from 1934....

Nanjo Mikisaburo is a young samurai trying to restore his ruined family to its past glory. Enduring the contempt and disdain of high-ranking samurai, Mikisaburo devotes himself to the way of the warrior, mastering the literary and martial arts. His m...

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A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the prince's concubines....

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto....

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film....

A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji....

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor......

A semidocumentary film about female pearl divers and fishermen....

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