Shin'yō Nara Movies

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

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

1951 Japanese movie

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War...

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with...

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for...

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

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

A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Early Japanese silent film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Weed with Flowers

Japanese silent film from 1930.

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

Japanese silent film from 1930. The second chapter of "The Big City: Labor" (1929).

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Japanese film from 1925.

Early silent film from Hiroshi Shimizu.