Mitsuko Takao

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at sento (public baths) too. The handwritten text on the bottom here announces the film will play at Hassen for 3 days.

The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and déclassé family.

Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo holds two prints of the film.

Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.

A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited.

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.