Yo Shiomi Movies

A biographical film chronicling the life of composer Setoguchi Tōkichi (1868-1941) from his early days as a clarinetist in the Imperial Japanese...

Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his...

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

Japanese film.

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"

A 1942 film.

A Daiei erotic film depicting the five passionate love affairs of a voluptuous married woman, driven by her beauty.

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Japanese crime film.

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

An early Japanese sound film, notable for being the only Japanese film ever to use the Western Electric Sound System. Contrary to most Western...

The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...

First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.