Kaichi Yamamoto Movies

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

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...

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.

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...

A Japanese silent drama about two farmers

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

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

An old potter despairs of having only two daughters and no son, hoping his apprentice will one day bring him an heir. The apprentice meets the eldest...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

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...