Kaichi Yamamoto Movies

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

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...

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...

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....

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

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.

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...

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

The earliest existing version (incomplete) of Mito Komon history. It was one of the most famous (and most filmed) Jidaigeki stories. Lord Mito is the...

The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...

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

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

An adaptation of Anna Christie, considered lost.

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

A Japanese silent drama about two farmers

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