Movies: Shintarô Takiguchi

Japanese silent film from 1932....

Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work....

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Famed swordsman Araki Mataemon must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family member....

1938 Theater of Life adaptation....

A blacksmith is chased out of the village by the sinister village chief and forced to move to the forest with his wife and two sons. The blacksmith's younger son is disabled, and the other children in the village tease him. The older son aspires to ...

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide....

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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...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi...

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1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel....

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife....

Japanese silent film from 1928....