Kaichi Yamamoto Movies

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

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

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

A Japanese silent drama about two farmers

An adaptation of Anna Christie, considered lost.

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took...

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.