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...

Early pinku.

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...

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese silent film from 1930.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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

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 feature-length work based on Kan Kikuchi’s newspaper novel, adapted for the screen by Kōgo Noda. With performances by stars such as...

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...

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