Yasujirô Shimazu

Shuji Kamura is out of work and as a result, he and his wife are forced to separate. Their reasons are completely financial, as both still carry romantic feelings for the other. Shuji becomes an employee at some sort of extravagant clothing store. There he becomes acquainted with his co-workers and friends to be, Shin Miki (Shin Saburi) and Ken Taniyama. (Ken Uehara)

A teenager flirts with the girl next door, big sister of whom gets separated from her husband and moves back to her parents' house.

Shin Saburi is a salaryman married to Kuniko Miyake, with a younger sister (Michiko Kuwano). Saburi has job problems -- and has to worry about marriage prospects of his sister (who is a westernized office girl). Whenever the family runs into problems, they turn to family friend Chishu Ryu.... (KG)

A silent movie by Yasujirô Shimazu.

Based on a Tanizaki Junichiro tale of male devotion passing into love and masochism. Okoto is blind, but her family can afford to pamper her. She takes up the koto and the family's young servant Sasuke faithfully escorts her to her music lessons. She often treats him disdainfully, but she insists on his company, and so gossip grows up around them. Sasuke's loyalty is tested when Okoto is wooed by a vacuous but persistent suitor.

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako earns from working in a café. Shigeo is not happy with the situation and neither is his family who do not approve of Minako. Especially his uncle tries to convince him to leave Minako, even using his influence behind the scenes. (imdb)

A young student of traditional dance falls in love with a handsome young man who visits the dance school in order to take photographs.

Shigezumi is a young stock broker from Tokyo. He is in love with young Taiko who lives in Osaka. The marriage seems impossible as Shigezumi had a difficult relationship to Taiko' father who bankrupted and drove Shigezumi's father into suicide. And now Shigezumi seems to be the next target of Taiko's father's business wars... (KG)

CHIAKI-the business owner's daughter, TUYOKO-plubisher, and YUKIE are in love with the same person: YOSHIO (Uehara Ken), a handsome young man who is an employee at a fabric export company whose boss is Yukie's father.... (KG)

A father with no wife has three daughters with the oldest one (played by Hara Setsuko) at the age to be married off, which means the man needs to re-marry in order for someone to take care of him and his daughters. With the eldest and father now married, there is tension and an uncomfortable distance between the two remaining daughters and the mother-in-law. (imdb)

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era. (themoviedb)

A struggling painter who derives inspiration from European art, a veteran actor who contemplates retirement after being jeered onstage, a lonely arcade worker who longs to escape the tawdry lights of the district, a well-intentioned actor (Ken Uehara) whose off-stage samaritan deeds and insistence on fairness and righteousness rival the heroics of his on-stage persona, an older, world wise chorus girl who takes it upon herself to protect her young co-worker’s honor. (Acquarello)

During the Russian Civil War, Grigori Sajapin is an opera singer in a name-disguised Harbin. He has an adopted daughter, Shirley Yamaguchi. whose real father has been looking for her.... but she knows no father save Sajapan. Because of the association of opera with the old Russia, Sajapin goes through some hard times, but Miss Yamaguchi won't even think of leaving him, despite emissaries from her father who make the offer.

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. Jyuta tries to correct him…

Early Japanese sound film, a remake of Josef von Sternberg’s DOCKS OF NEW YORK set in Yokohama.