Kaichi Yamamoto Movies

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took...

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

Otane, the daughter of a thread shop owner in Ryogoku, is in love with Sumio, the son of an ivory craftsman who lives nearby. The two are united in a...

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

The earliest existing version (incomplete) of Mito Komon history. It was one of the most famous (and most filmed) Jidaigeki stories. Lord Mito is the...

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.