Hideo Nakamura

The Japanese equivalent of penny dreadfuls glorifying Jesse James, A Diary of Chuji’s Travels gives a unique gloss to the tale of Chuji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honourable side of himself, and maybe some form...

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The film centres around junior high school students. They are members of the school's baseball team. They are very good. Izawa's father asks him to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ichirō Izawa

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Den Obinata

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

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Cast: Nobuko Fushimi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hikaru Hoshi

Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

A Diary of Chuji's Travels is a silent Japanese jidaigeki made in 1927 starring Denjirō Ōkōchi and directed by Daisuke Itō. It was originally...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi