
A Page of Madness
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
This is the story of a samurai who falls on hard times due to misunderstandings and follows the plots of his enemies.
An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.
After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent...
A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
The Chinese prince T'Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. Leaving to...
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...
A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji.
While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic...
The Outside Woman is a lost 1921 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Douglas Bronston.
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...
Yano is a small delivery boy for his uncle, who keeps a curio shop in Chinatown. His loves are Tama, his sweetheart, and Bengi, his dog. Bengi is...
First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...
A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second...
The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based...