Cast: Taisuke Matsumoto

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Takako Irie · Eiji Nakano · Taisuke Matsumoto · Ichiro Sugai

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Eiji Nakano · Isamu Kosugi · Taisuke Matsumoto · Shinobu Araki

Synopsis This tremendously stylish gangster film, about the love-hate relationship between a cop and a criminal who were childhood friends is Uchida’s finest surviving silent film. Its taut, terse style demonstrates a Western influence typical of Japan’s late silent cinema, and...

Direction Tamizo Ishida

Cast Sumiko Suzuki · Shojiro Ichikawa · Taisuke Matsumoto

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Seizaburô Kawazu · Shizuko Mori · Taisuke Matsumoto

Direction Kiyohiko Ushihara

Cast Tokusaburo Arashi · Shinpachiro Asaka · Yaeko Asano · Yuriko Asano

Synopsis Sumiko Suzuki plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. One day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro’s house by his lost cat Kuro, and becomes besotted with him. Dark...

Direction Tomiyasu Ikeda

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Yôko Umemura · Taisuke Matsumoto · Enichiro Jitsukawa

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Taisuke Matsumoto · Keiko Takatsu · Eiji Nakano