Yōko Umemura Movies

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women...

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...

Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful,...

A story about Ômura Masujirô

Japanese war film.

A Japanese silent film

Silent Japanese film.

Based on Matsutaro Kawaguchi's novel "Geido Ichidai Otoko." Considered a lost 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...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.

A lost film directed by Ushihara Kiyohiko based on a story published in the Mainichi Sunday Newspaper entitled '恋女扇.' It stars a...

1942 Japanese movie

Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss so she can pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.

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,...

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...