Ichiro Yuki Movies

In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the...

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

University friends Ben and Shūichi unknowingly vie for the attention of the beautiful Chieko while on a skiing trip.

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...

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

Japanese drama from 1934. A major production of Shochiku Studio, directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

1958 Japanese movie

Early pinku.

It is considered to be a lost film.

An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she...

1965 pinku directed by Sôjirô Motoki, under the name of Tamizô Shibuya.

Two friends accidentally run into a young, homeless woman, so they take her in.

Japanese silent film from 1929.

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Japanese film from 1932.