Shochiku Kinema Kamata Movies

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

The Siege of Osaka

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the...

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...

Early Japanese silent film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

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

Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her...

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

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...

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

Japanese film from 1929.

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.