Masao Inoue Movies

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities....

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The...

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Third installment of a wartime film trilogy.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

Japanese Warmovie

The adventures of a demobilised soldier and a group of war orphans under his care on Ringing Bell Hill. Second installment of a wartime film trilogy.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Directed by Masao Inoue.

Directed in 1921

Based on a contemporary set novel by Shunyo Yanagawa, this film was adapted to the Japanese stage with multiple film versions to follow, including...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Japanese silent film from 1928.