Shin'yō Nara Movies

Japanese silent film from 1932.

Japanese silent film from 1930.

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from a story serialized in the entertainment magazine "Fuji."

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Tetsuji Takechi's third film is based on two short stories by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. The film depicts the lurid and violently erotic dreams of a...

Japanese silent film from 1927, based on a popular serialized novel by Kan Kikuchi.

Lost Japanese silent film from 1931.

Japanese silent film (jidaigeki) from 1926.