Ichiro Yuki Movies

In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the...

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

Japanese film from 1932.

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

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

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

Record of Love and Desire a.k.a. Desire of Night (愛慾の記[b], Aiyoku no ki; lit. "Memories of Love and Desire") is a 1930...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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...

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

Japanese silent film from 1933.

Japanese silent film from 1930.

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...

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...