Eiji Takagi

Ōoka Cases Devil's Image - Part One

A Japanese silent film

Tokyo March

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title song, "Tokyo March." (Sadly, less than a half hour of the footage has been recovered and restored.)

The Daughter of the Samurai

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo has long been promised. But Teruo, who has gotten to know the freedoms of the western world, would rather marry the woman he loves and behaves brusquely to Mitsuko.

Bangaku no issho

Yamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. The Life of Bangaku

Shinpan Ôoka seidan: Dai-nihen

Silent Japanese film.

Smiling Earth

A lost Mizoguchi film.

Metropolitan Symphony

A young woman seduced by a rich man, takes revenge on him with the help of a young idealistic worker. Considered a lost film.

Theater of Life: Youth Version

A Living Puppet

A man rises in society by cheating, but the institutions in turn take their revenge.

The Revenge Champion

Lost film, directed by Tomu Uchida. This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the samurai Bushido, which has become obsolete and turned into an empty form during the period of feudalism.