Shochiku Kinema Kamata Movies

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

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Japanese silent film from 1930.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

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

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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

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...

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

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...

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 Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

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

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

The Siege of Osaka