Utako Suzuki Movies

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

Japanese film from 1929.

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

A dramatized chapter in the life of Shimizu Jirocho, a famous yakuza boss, gambler, and folk hero of the 1800s.

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.

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...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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

Kenji is a small-time thief who likes drinking and fighting. When he falls in love with sweet and simple Yazue, and she finds out what kind of guy he...

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 a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

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...

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

After being separated from their parents in childhood and left as orphans, Kyōko and Namiko were raised with the love of their aunt and grew...