Ryōtarō Mizushima Movies

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...

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

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...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Shirō Kuroki, the adopted son of the Yamada family, shares a deep and mutual love with his foster sister, Kinuko Yamada. His commitment to...

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 Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

Rinzou tries to pressure Gosuke into marrying his daughter, Osumi, to him to make up for his debts. In a chance encounter the father and daughter...

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese silent film from 1931.

Directed by Minoru Murata.