Yōko Umemura Movies

Silent Japanese film.

Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).

Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth...

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

A Japanese silent film

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

A lost Mizoguchi film.

A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.

Otane, the daughter of a thread shop owner in Ryogoku, is in love with Sumio, the son of an ivory craftsman who lives nearby. The two are united in a...

Silent Japanese film.

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

1942 Japanese movie

Mitsue is a popular stage actress and the lover of a shamisen player named Seijuro. She jealously murders two other objects of his affection: Okiyo,...

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