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ordered by year in the 1920s. For an A-Z of films see :Category:Japanese films. Also see cinema of Japan

Cinema of Japan

The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2009 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived...

1920s

Title	Director	Cast
1920 1920 in film The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 27 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1920:U.S.A. unless stated*The $1,000,000 Reward...
Amachua kurabu	Thomas Kurihara Thomas Kurihara was a Japanese actor and film director.- Life :Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara , was born in Hadano, Kanagawa. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled school for film actors in 1912...	Michiko Hayama
Saraba seishun	Iyokichi Kondo Norimasa Kaeriyama Norimasa Kaeriyama was a pioneering Japanese film director and film theorist.-Biography:Beginning with articles he submitted to Yoshizawa Shōten's magazine Katsudō shashinkai while still a student, Kaeriyama developed a long series of critiques of contemporary Japanese cinema that would make him the leading spokesman...	Sugisaku Aoyama Minoru Murata Minoru Murata was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor who was one of the major directors of the silent era in Japan.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Murata started out as a shingeki actor on the stage. Murata's troupe appeared in the first "pure films" directed by Norimasa Kaeriyama at Tenkatsu in 1918...
Tenjiku Tarō	Shiro Nakagawa	Ritoku Arashi
Utsukushiki Nippon	Thomas Kurihara Thomas Kurihara was a Japanese actor and film director.- Life :Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara , was born in Hadano, Kanagawa. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled school for film actors in 1912...
1921 1921 in film -Top grossing films :-Films released in 1921:U.S.A. unless stated$10,000 Under a Pillow, silent film directed by Frank MoserThe Ace of Hearts, silent film directed by Wallace Worsley*Across the Divide, silent film directed by John Holloway...
Gōketsu Jiraiya	Shōzō Makino	Matsunosuke Onoe Matsunosuke Onoe , sometimes known as Medama no Matchan , was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura. He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe...
Jitsuroku Chushingura Jitsuroku Chushingura is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Shozo Makino. It was an epic created to commemorate Makino's 50th birthday and is based on the classic theme of Chushingura. Scenes within the film, recognizable to all Japanese, "Great Pine Corridor" and "Raid"...
Hinamatsuri no yoru	Kisaburo Kurihara Thomas Kurihara was a Japanese actor and film director.- Life :Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara , was born in Hadano, Kanagawa. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled school for film actors in 1912...	Hayama Michiko
Rojo no Reikon	Minoru Murata Minoru Murata was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor who was one of the major directors of the silent era in Japan.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Murata started out as a shingeki actor on the stage. Murata's troupe appeared in the first "pure films" directed by Norimasa Kaeriyama at Tenkatsu in 1918...	Kaoru Osanai Kaoru Osanai was a Japanese theater director, playwright, and actor central in the development of modern Japanese theater.-Biography:Graduating from Tokyo University, Osanai founded the Free Theater with Ichikawa Sadanji II in 1909 and staged translations of Ibsen, Chekov, and Gorky, but there he experienced... Zeya Togo Denmei Suzuki was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in gendaigeki of the silent era.- Career :Suzuki was born in Tokyo and was a championship swimmer at Meiji University when he first appeared in Souls on the Road in 1921 under the name Zeya Tōgō . After graduating in 1924, he joined the...
Gubijinsō	Henry Kotani	Sumiko Kurishima Sumiko Kurishima was a Japanese actress and master of traditional Japanese dance. She is often considered Japan's first female movie star.-Career:...
Jusei
Kantsubaki	Ryoha Hatanaka	Masao Inoue Masao Inoue (actor) was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film and stage art in Japan.-Career:Born in Ehime Prefecture, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17. Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member... Yaeko Mizutani
Yama kururu	Kiyohiko Ushihara Kiyohiko Ushihara was a Japanese film director most famous for his gendaigeki of the silent era.-Career:Born in Kumamoto Prefecture and graduating from Tokyo University, Ushihara joined the Shochiku studio in 1920 on the invitation of Kaoru Osanai...	Komei Minami Haruko Sawamura
Shōrō-mori	Shiro Nakagawa	Ritoku Arashi
Kimi yo shirazu ya	Minoru Murata Minoru Murata was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor who was one of the major directors of the silent era in Japan.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Murata started out as a shingeki actor on the stage. Murata's troupe appeared in the first "pure films" directed by Norimasa Kaeriyama at Tenkatsu in 1918...	Eliana Pavlova Komei Minami
Narikin	Kisaburo Kurihara Thomas Kurihara was a Japanese actor and film director.- Life :Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara , was born in Hadano, Kanagawa. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled school for film actors in 1912...	Miyoko Suzuki
Ono ga tsumi	Zanmu Kako	Goro Okamoto Yukichi Iwata

1922

Title	Director	Cast	Genre
1922 1922 in film -Events:* June 11 - United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film....
Aa, Konishi junsa	Teinosuke Kinugasa Teinosuke Kinugasa -External links:* *... Tomu Uchida Tomu Uchida was a Japanese film director. Tomu Uchida, whose name translates to “spit out dreams” is considered one of the less well known masters of Japanese cinema in the West, whose films are rarely screened and not widely available on DVD...	Teinosuke Kinugasa Teinosuke Kinugasa -External links:* *...
Aa, Ono kundō	Zanmu Kako	Yuriko Hanabusa Yoko Umemura
Ai no kusabi	Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Yotaro Katsumi Nobuko Satsuki
Chirinishi hana	Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Yuriko Hanabusa Goro Okamoto
Hototogisu
Konjiki yasha	Zanmu Kako	Tsuzuya Moroguchi Yoshiko Kawada	Romance Romance film Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...
Kagayaki no michi e	Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Goro Okamoto Akio Isono
Kyōya erimise	Eizo Tanaka Eizō Tanaka was a early Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor.-Life and career:Tanaka initially trained as a stage actor in the shingeki movement under Kaoru Osanai, but eventually joined the Nikkatsu film studio in 1917...	Hideo Fujino
Nio no ukisu	Shiro Nakagawa	Ritoku Arashi
Ryoben-sugi	Shiro Nakagawa	Ritoku Arashi
Shibukawa Bangorō		Matsunosuke Onoe Matsunosuke Onoe , sometimes known as Medama no Matchan , was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura. He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe...

1923

Title	Director	Cast	Genre
1923 1923 in film -Events:*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1923:U.S.A...
Aa mujō - Dai ippen: Hōrō no maki	Kiyohiko Ushihara Kiyohiko Ushihara was a Japanese film director most famous for his gendaigeki of the silent era.-Career:Born in Kumamoto Prefecture and graduating from Tokyo University, Ushihara joined the Shochiku studio in 1920 on the invitation of Kaoru Osanai...	Masao Inoue Masao Inoue (actor) was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film and stage art in Japan.-Career:Born in Ehime Prefecture, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17. Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member...	Drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
Aa mujō - Dai nihen: Shichō no maki	Yoshinobu Ikeda	Masao Inoue Masao Inoue (actor) was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film and stage art in Japan.-Career:Born in Ehime Prefecture, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17. Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member...	Drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
Ai ni yomigaeru hi	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Kaichi Yamamoto
Bavu
Chi to rei	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Chiyoko Eguchi Yoneko Sakai
Chichi yo izuko e	Norimasa Kaeriyama Norimasa Kaeriyama was a pioneering Japanese film director and film theorist.-Biography:Beginning with articles he submitted to Yoshizawa Shōten's magazine Katsudō shashinkai while still a student, Kaeriyama developed a long series of critiques of contemporary Japanese cinema that would make him the leading spokesman...	Misao Seki Teruko Azuma
Sendō kouta	Yoshinobu Ikeda	Yukichi Iwata Sumiko Kurishima Sumiko Kurishima was a Japanese actress and master of traditional Japanese dance. She is often considered Japan's first female movie star.-Career:...
Kohitsuji	Zanmu Kako	Tsuduya Moroguchi Yuriko Hanabusa
Haikyo no naka	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Haruko Sawamura
Haisha no uta wa kanashi	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Haruko Sawamura
Joen no chimata	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Komei Minami
Kiri no minato	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Haruko Sawamura
Jinniku no ichi	Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Nobuko Satsuki Heijiro Isono
Kokyo	kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Kaichi Yamamoto
Mizumo no hana	Yoshinobu Ikeda	Yukichi Iwata Sumiko Kurishima Sumiko Kurishima was a Japanese actress and master of traditional Japanese dance. She is often considered Japan's first female movie star.-Career:...
Mori kundo tetsuro no tsuyu	Zanmu Kako	Taisuke Matsumoto
Seishun no yumeji	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Tetsuya Yoshimura Yoneko Sakai
Salome
Ono ga tsumi		Unpei Yokoyama
Touge no uta	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	kaichi Yamamoto Haruko Sawamura
Yama no senroban	Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Mitsuko Takao
Zoku Amateur Club	Thomas Kurihara Thomas Kurihara was a Japanese actor and film director.- Life :Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara , was born in Hadano, Kanagawa. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled school for film actors in 1912...	Henry Kotani Michiko Hayama

1924

Title	Director	Cast
1924 1924 in film -Events:* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Sarutobi no ninjutsu	Jiro Yoshino	Shirogoro Sawamura
Chairo no onna
Kanashiki hakuchi	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Yoneko Sakai
Akatsuki no shi	kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Haruko Sawamura
Koi no misshi	Henry Kotani
Mouken no himitsu	Minoru Murata Minoru Murata was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor who was one of the major directors of the silent era in Japan.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Murata started out as a shingeki actor on the stage. Murata's troupe appeared in the first "pure films" directed by Norimasa Kaeriyama at Tenkatsu in 1918...	Haruko Sawamura Ryotaro Mizushima
Rutsubo wa nieru	Kensaku Suzuki	Kaichi Yamamoto Yoneko Sakai
Gendai no jo-ou	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Yoneko Sakai Komei Minami
Josei wa tsuyoshi	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Yutaka Mimasu Yoneko Sakai
Hanasaka jijii	Teinosuke Kinugasa Teinosuke Kinugasa -External links:* *...	Misao Seki
Koi to bushido	Goro Hirose	Ritoku Arashi
Shichimencho no yukue	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Jun'ichi Kitamura Yoshiko Tokugawa
Itō junsa no shi	Kensaku Suzuki Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène... Gengo Ohora Iyokichi Kondo	Enji Sato
Samidare zoshi	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Utako Suzuki Hiroshi Inagaki Hiroshi Inagaki was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the Academy Award-winning Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, which he directed in 1954.-Career:Born in Tokyo as the son of a shinpa actor, Inagaki appeared on stage in his childhood before joining the Nikkatsu studio as an actor in 1922...
Kanraku no zei	Kouroku Numata	Kashichi Shimada Shizuko Mori
Shiota Mondo	Goro Hirose
Sohtoh	Bansho Kanamori	Misao Seki Shizuko Mori
Kairoshi
Ningyo no sei	Shiro Nakagawa	Ritoku Arashi
Shimizu Jirochō: Dai-ippen	Goro Hirose	Ritoku Arashi Momonosuke Ichikawa
Robin Hood no yume
Shōjo no nayami		Mitsuko Takao
Kōmori-yasu	Goro Hirose	Rikaku Arashi
Kanraku no onna	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	kaichi Yamamoto Yoneko Sakai
Nukiuchi Gonpachi	Goro Hirose	Momonosuke Ichikawa
Nageki no kujaku	Yoshinobu Ikeda	Sumiko Kurishima Sumiko Kurishima was a Japanese actress and master of traditional Japanese dance. She is often considered Japan's first female movie star.-Career:... Shinyo Nara
Shinshutsu kibotsu	Goro Hirose	Momonosuke Ichikawa
Kyokubadan no jo-o	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Kumeko Urabe Denmei Suzuki Denmei Suzuki was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in gendaigeki of the silent era.- Career :Suzuki was born in Tokyo and was a championship swimmer at Meiji University when he first appeared in Souls on the Road in 1921 under the name Zeya Tōgō . After graduating in 1924, he joined the...
Mura no bokujo	Hiroshi Shimizu Hiroshi Shimizu (director) was a Japanese film director, known for his silent films with detailed depictions of Japanese society.-Career:Shimizu was born in Shizuoka and attended Hokkaidō University but left before graduating. He joined the Shochiku studio in Tokyo in 1921 and made his directorial debut in 1924, at the age...	Kinuyo Tanaka Kinuyo Tanaka was a Japanese actress and director.Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929...

1925

Title	Director	Cast
1925 1925 in film -Events:November 5: The Big Parade holds its Grand PremierDecember 30: premier of Ben-Hur the most expensive silent film ever made costing 4-6 million dollars -Top grossing films :...
Uchen-Puchan	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Kaichi Yamamoto Kumeko Urabe
Giketsu	Tomu Uchida Tomu Uchida was a Japanese film director. Tomu Uchida, whose name translates to “spit out dreams” is considered one of the less well known masters of Japanese cinema in the West, whose films are rarely screened and not widely available on DVD...	Kashichi Shimada
Edo kaizoku-den: Kagebōshi - Zempen	Buntaro Futagawa	Tsumasaburo Bando Tsumasaburo Bando was one of the most prominent Japanese actors of the twentieth century. Famous for his rebellious, sword fighting roles in many jidaigeki silent films, he rose to fame after joining the Tōjiin Studio of Makino Film Productions in Kyoto in 1923.-Early life:... Shinpei Takagi
Edo kaizoku-den: Kagebōshi	Buntaro Futagawa	Tsumasaburo Bando Tsumasaburo Bando was one of the most prominent Japanese actors of the twentieth century. Famous for his rebellious, sword fighting roles in many jidaigeki silent films, he rose to fame after joining the Tōjiin Studio of Makino Film Productions in Kyoto in 1923.-Early life:... Shinpei Takagi
Hō wo shitau onna	Minoru Murata Minoru Murata was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor who was one of the major directors of the silent era in Japan.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Murata started out as a shingeki actor on the stage. Murata's troupe appeared in the first "pure films" directed by Norimasa Kaeriyama at Tenkatsu in 1918... Genjiro Saegusa	Kumeko Urabe
Takasugi Shinsaku (1925 film)	Goro Hirose	Michisaburo Segawa
Aiyoku no kiro
Nantoh no haru	Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Tokuji Kobayashi Chieko Matsui
Gakuso o idete	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Komei Minami Iyokichi Kondo
Daichi wa Hohoemu: Zenpen (1925 Shochiku film)	Kiyohiko Ushihara Kiyohiko Ushihara was a Japanese film director most famous for his gendaigeki of the silent era.-Career:Born in Kumamoto Prefecture and graduating from Tokyo University, Ushihara joined the Shochiku studio in 1920 on the invitation of Kaoru Osanai... Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Masao Inoue Masao Inoue (actor) was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film and stage art in Japan.-Career:Born in Ehime Prefecture, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17. Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member... Yuriko Hanabusa
Daichi wa Hohoemu: Chuhen	Kiyohiko Ushihara Kiyohiko Ushihara was a Japanese film director most famous for his gendaigeki of the silent era.-Career:Born in Kumamoto Prefecture and graduating from Tokyo University, Ushihara joined the Shochiku studio in 1920 on the invitation of Kaoru Osanai... Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Masao Inoue Masao Inoue (actor) was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film and stage art in Japan.-Career:Born in Ehime Prefecture, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17. Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member... Hideo Fujino
Daichi wa Hohoemu: Kōhen (1925 Shochiku film)	Kiyohiko Ushihara Kiyohiko Ushihara was a Japanese film director most famous for his gendaigeki of the silent era.-Career:Born in Kumamoto Prefecture and graduating from Tokyo University, Ushihara joined the Shochiku studio in 1920 on the invitation of Kaoru Osanai... Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Masao Inoue Masao Inoue (actor) was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film and stage art in Japan.-Career:Born in Ehime Prefecture, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17. Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member... Sumiko Kurishima Sumiko Kurishima was a Japanese actress and master of traditional Japanese dance. She is often considered Japan's first female movie star.-Career:...
Daichi wa Hohoemu: Dai ippen	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Eiji Takagi Eiji Nakano
Daichi wa Hohoemu: Dai nihen	Osamu Wakayama	Eiji Nakano Yoshiko Okada
Daichi wa Hohoemi: Dai sanpen	Kensaku Suzuki	Eiji Nakano Yoko Umemura
Komoriuta	Eiichi Matsumoto Eiichi Matsumoto is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...	Yaeko Utagawa Kokuten Takado
Ah tokumukan kanto	Osamu Wakayama Kensaku Suzuki Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Komei Minami Kaichi Yamamoto
Rakka no Mai: Zenpen (1925 Nikkatsu film)	Tomiyasu Ikeda
Rakka no Mai: Chuhen	Tomiyasu Ikeda	Haruko Sawamura
Rakka no Mai: Shuhen	Tomiyasu Ikeda	Yoneko Sakai
Yotsuya kaidan (1925 film)		Nobuko Satsuki
Shirayuri wa nageku	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Yoshiko Okada
Daikon wa hohoemu	Takuji Furumi
Nagaruru sake	Eiichi Matsumoto Eiichi Matsumoto is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...	Taisuke Matsumoto
Akai yuhi ni terasarete	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène... Genjiro Saegusa	Eiji Nakano Komei Minami
Horaijima	Takuji Furumi	Rintaro Fujima Ranko Sawa
Seinan sensō hishi: Kōjo Shiragiku
Kanashiki koi no gensō	Yoshinobu Ikeda	Sumiko Kurishima Sumiko Kurishima was a Japanese actress and master of traditional Japanese dance. She is often considered Japan's first female movie star.-Career:... Shinyo Nara
Meiken jakku		Taisuke Matsumoto
Ijin musume to bushi	Shōzō Makino	Tsumasaburo Bando Tsumasaburo Bando was one of the most prominent Japanese actors of the twentieth century. Famous for his rebellious, sword fighting roles in many jidaigeki silent films, he rose to fame after joining the Tōjiin Studio of Makino Film Productions in Kyoto in 1923.-Early life:... Shizuko Mori
Yōsei chi ni otsureba	Yasujiro Shimazu Yasujirō Shimazu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who was one of the major creators of the shōshimingeki genre at the Shōchiku studios in pre-World War II Japan....	Denmei Suzuki Denmei Suzuki was a Japanese film actor most famous for starring roles in gendaigeki of the silent era.- Career :Suzuki was born in Tokyo and was a championship swimmer at Meiji University when he first appeared in Souls on the Road in 1921 under the name Zeya Tōgō . After graduating in 1924, he joined the... Yuriko Hanabusa
Murasaki no nisou	Eiichi Matsumoto Eiichi Matsumoto is a renowned Japanese photographer.-References:...	Taisuke Matsumoto Ranko Sawa
Toyo no Carmen	Frank Tokunaga	Kaichi Yamamoto Komamo Sunada
Araki Mataemon	Tomiyasu Ikeda	Matsunosuke Onoe Matsunosuke Onoe , sometimes known as Medama no Matchan , was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura. He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsurusaburo Onoe... Goro Kawabe
Eien no nazo	Masaru Omori	Taisuke Matsumoto Ranko Sawa
Orochi Orochi (film) is a 1925 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Buntarō Futagawa. This is the most popular and beloved film of Tsumasaburō Bandō, featuring the star at the height of his fame.-Synopsis:...	Buntaro Futagawa	Tsumasaburo Bando Tsumasaburo Bando was one of the most prominent Japanese actors of the twentieth century. Famous for his rebellious, sword fighting roles in many jidaigeki silent films, he rose to fame after joining the Tōjiin Studio of Makino Film Productions in Kyoto in 1923.-Early life:... Utako Tamaki
Machi no Suketchi	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Yasunaga Higashibojo Yoshiko Okada
Ningen: Zenkohen	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Eiji Nakano Yoshiko Okada
Furusato no uta	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Masujiro Takagi
Gokurakutō no jo-ou	Meiho Ogasawara	Aiko Takashima Thomas Kurihara Thomas Kurihara was a Japanese actor and film director.- Life :Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara , was born in Hadano, Kanagawa. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled school for film actors in 1912...
Maboroshi
Nogi taisho to Kumasan	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	kaichi Yamamoto

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1926 1926 in film -Events:*August - Warner Brothers debuts the first Vitaphone film, Don Juan. The Vitaphone system used multiple 33⅓ rpm disc records developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric to play back audio synchronized with film....
Kurutta Ippeji (A Page of Madness A Page of Madness -External links:*... )	Kinugasa Teinosuke	Masao Inoue Masao Inoue (actor) was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film and stage art in Japan.-Career:Born in Ehime Prefecture, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17. Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member...	24 September
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1927 1927 in film -Events:January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.April 7 - Abel Gance's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premiers at the Paris Opéra and would demonstrate techniques and equipment that would not be used for years to...
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1928

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1928 1928 in film -Events:Although some movies released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent.* July 28 - Lights of New York is released by Warner Brothers. It is the first "100% Talkie" feature film, in that dialog is spoken throughout the film...
Jujiro Jujiro , also known as Crossroads, Crossways, Shadows of the Yoshiwara or Slums of Tokyo, is a 1928 silent Japanese film drama by directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.- Cast :* Akiko Chihaya as Okiku* Junosuke Bando as Rikiya* Yukiko Ogawa as O-ume... (Crossways)	Kinugasa Teinosuke		11 May
Kurama Tengu: Kyōfu Jidai	Teppei Yamaguchi	Kanjuro Arashi Kanjūrō Arashi was a Japanese film actor. He entered the film industry in 1927 and came to fame playing Kurama Tengu, a character in the Bakumatsu era created by Jirō Osaragi in his novels. In the 1950s he portrayed the Emperor Meiji in several hit films and appeared in yakuza films in the 1960s... , Reizaburo Yamamoto, Takasaburo Nakamura, Tokusho Arashi
Kurama Tengu Kurama Tengu (film) is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Teppei Yamaguchi. It is a film which is a part of the series depicting the bold and daring hero Kurama Tengu...	Teppei Yamaguchi	Kanjuro Arashi Kanjūrō Arashi was a Japanese film actor. He entered the film industry in 1927 and came to fame playing Kurama Tengu, a character in the Bakumatsu era created by Jirō Osaragi in his novels. In the 1950s he portrayed the Emperor Meiji in several hit films and appeared in yakuza films in the 1960s... , Takesaburo Nakamura, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Tokusho Arashi
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1929 1929 in film -Events:The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona is released. The film is the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors....
Aa mujo: Kohen
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External links

Japanese film at the Internet Movie Database
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