Kaichi Yamamoto Movies

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

A Japanese silent drama about two farmers

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

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.

An adaptation of Anna Christie, considered lost.

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

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

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 published...

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki.

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 Revolution...

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 Revoluti...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

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. He...