Ryōtarō Mizushima Movies

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

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

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

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

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

Directed by Minoru Murata.

Directed in 1921

Pretty Oshige is deceived by her first love. After this, she lives a hard lifestyle, working at a number of jobs. Her only pleasure is her nephew,...

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

Directed by Kiyomatsu Hosoyama.