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Yōko Umemura

Born : 21st-Oct-1903

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The 47 Ronin

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
Released : 8th-Dec-1941

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Osaka Elegy

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
Released : 28th-May-1936

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Sandai no sakazuki

1942 Japanese movie
Released : 11th-Dec-1942

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The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

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 to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.
Released : 13th-Oct-1939

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Oyuki the Virgin

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.
Released : 5th-Oct-1935

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Shinpan Ôoka seidan: Dai-nihen

Silent Japanese film.
Released : 8th-Jun-1928

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Sisters of the Gion

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.
Released : 15th-Oct-1936

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Hiratemiki


Released : 9th-Nov-1928

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A Mermaid on Land

Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).
Released : 12th-Sep-1926

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Smiling Earth


Released : 10th-Apr-1925

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晴小袖

A lost film directed by Ushihara Kiyohiko based on a story published in the Mainichi Sunday Newspaper entitled '恋女扇.' It stars a wild man who falls passionately in love with a woman.
Released : 15th-Oct-1940

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Mistress of a Foreigner

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 published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.
Released : 1st-Jul-1930

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Poppy

Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.
Released : 31st-Oct-1935

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A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
Released : 28th-Feb-1926

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Navy

Japanese war film.
Released : 8th-Dec-1943

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Aa mujo: zenpen


Released : 10th-May-1929

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Aa mujo: Kohen


Released : 17th-May-1929

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Hyakumensô


Released : 1st-Aug-1929

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The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen

A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko Kinema between 1937-40 featuring Japan's first scream queen, Sumiko Suzuki. Here she plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When one day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro's house by his lost cat Kuro, she becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gifts Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue's hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo's younger sister Onui avenge her sister's murder.
Released : 2nd-Nov-1938

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The Woman Who Touched The Legs

A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.
Released : 29th-Oct-1926

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Five Women Around Him

Directed by Yutaka Abe.
Released : 18th-Mar-1927

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Ōoka Cases Devil's Image - Part One

A Japanese silent film
Released : 15th-May-1930

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And Yet They Go On

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931
Released : 12th-Jun-1931

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Akanishi Kakita

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
Released : 18th-Jun-1936

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Miss Okichi

Kenji Mizoguchi is credited as “supervisor” on this rare Japanese genre film, which stars the stunning Isuzu Yamada (Osaka Elegy, Throne of Blood) as a professional criminal, part con woman and part martial artist, who falls in love with a young man from the straight world.
Released : 29th-Aug-1935

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Daichi wa hohoemu dainihen


Released : 17th-Apr-1925

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Daichi wa hohoemu daisanpen


Released : 17th-Apr-1925

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New Clothing

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 destined for Buddhist priesthood; it concluded with their separation.
Released : 5th-Mar-1936

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Masujiro Omura

A story about Ômura Masujirô
Released : 14th-Jan-1942

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A Man of the Arts

A Man of the Arts
Released : 9th-Feb-1941

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Osaka Woman

Followup film to Osaka Elegy - Osaka Woman
Released : 19th-Sep-1940

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Shinpan Ôoka seidan: Dai-ippen

Silent Japanese film.
Released : 31st-May-1928

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Shinpan Ôoka seidan; Daisanpen: Kaikatsuhen

Silent Japanese film.
Released : 16th-Aug-1928

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The Kasahara School

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.
Released : 1st-Nov-1929

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