Ryōtarō Mizushima Movies

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Directed by Kensaku Suzuki. "...about the unemployed and women forced into prostitution, subjects which most producers, then as now, tended to...

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

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

Two childhood friends go their own ways but meet again some years later after they have both married. They get re-acquainted, meet each others’...

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Japanese silent film from 1931.

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

Directed by Kiyomatsu Hosoyama.

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

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.

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.