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 he...

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...

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

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

Students Watanabe and Yamamoto unknowingly compete for the same girl.

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...

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

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

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

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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...

Pinku from 1965.

Early pinku.

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

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...