Eiji Oshimoto Movies

This film depicts the fighting spirit of the frontline troops on Guadalcanal.

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...

Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima.

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves.

This film, which was recommended by the Ministry of Education, is based on the Malaya Campaign and the Battle of Singapore and was produced to boost...

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

Japanese silent film from 1926, directed by Heinosuke Gosho and featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.

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...

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Depicts the bereaved families of soldiers sent to the front.

Japanese silent film from 1927.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

1945 Japanese movie

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.