Most Viewed From Shochiku Kinema (Kamata)

Early feature film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.

A film by Eiichi Koichi depicting peasant uprisings.

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him.

Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Studio as part of a five-studio competition to...

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...

Japanese movie from 1934. The final film of director Hôtei Nomura, who died from a stroke suffered at a screening of this film.

Hirano's wife Yasuko had grown weary of her life of poverty. Her feelings of dissatisfaction deepened when she met her elegantly dressed friend...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Japanese film from 1934, based on a novel by Itsuma Maki (real name Kaitarō Hasegawa).

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Early silent film from Hiroshi Shimizu.

A young man torn between love and friendship.

This bittersweet comedy tells the tale of a group of college roommates attempting to cheat their way through their exams. As the title goes, things...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Early Japanese silent film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Japanese silent film from 1929.