Ichiro Yuki Movies

In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the...

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

1958 Japanese movie

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

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...

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

Japanese silent film from 1933.

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Japanese silent film from 1930.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

It is considered to be a lost film.

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...