Jun Arai Filmes

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

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...

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Japanese silent film from 1930. Directed by Heinosuke Gosho, the film marked a new stage in the artistry of Kinuyo Tanaka, earning acclaim strong...

Japanese silent film from 1925 featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over...

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

A modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.