Movies: Yasurō Shiga

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke...

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life....

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Ryôma Sakamoto unites the Choshu and Satsuma clans and paves the way for the Meiji Restoration....

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 feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier...

Period film from 1934....

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge....

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the past behind him and risk his life for his friend....

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Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film....

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