An opium smuggler is marked for murder in this story of the Chinese Mafia.

Bruce Winthrop, disguised as a clerk in the American consulate near the Mongolian border, is actually a secret United States government operative...

A three-reel silent drama about an ambitious young man leaving behind his beloved in Japan to study abroad at the University of California, Berkeley.

Yano is a small delivery boy for his uncle, who keeps a curio shop in Chinatown. His loves are Tama, his sweetheart, and Bengi, his dog. Bengi is...

A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to...

After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself...

The film is perhaps the only remaining example of silent era cinema from a Chinese-American production company, and was co-written, co-directed (with...

An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who breaks the gang rules and the law), and an older brother...

A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.

Directed by Yutaka Abe.

Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop,...

Venice Film Festival 1939

A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of...

Japanese drama film.

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...

1945 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Japanese drama film.

This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the...

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of...

A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to...

A touching literary and artistic story about the sadness and pathos of a woman's love, crying in agony over her hidden past.

A unique literary work that describes the end of a married woman who rebelled against her husband's adultery and became addicted to her own sexuality.