Shochiku Kinema Kamata Movies

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

After the plans of a group of college students to cheat on their final exams goes awry, they're left to reassess their lives and educations and get...

Tetsuo Nomoto, a young college graduate tries to find a decent job by himself. Later on, he will marry his girlfriend, Machiko, whom he hides the...

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

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...

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

Lost film. Two reporters find that they are repeatedly beaten to the scoop by a new female journalist, 'young miss'. They decide to team up with her...

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

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.

Story of two close friends who long to become pilots in the air corps. Only one succeeds in entering the service, while the other finds a job in...

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

Japanese film from 1932.

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...