Tokihiko Okada

The Water Magician

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.

Tokyo Chorus

In Depression-era Tokyo, a young man struggles to provide for his family after he is fired from his job.

That Night's Wife

In Depression-era Japan, a man commits a robbery to save his critically ill daughter and escapes with the funds, but complications arise.

The Lady and the Beard

Graduate Okajima finds his old-fashioned beard makes life difficult in a comedy exploring the tension between tradition and modernity.

The Feast of Gion

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.

Mito Kōmon

Kekkon nijuso: zenpen

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.

A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring

Otane, the daughter of a thread shop owner in Ryogoku, is in love with Sumio, the son of an ivory craftsman who lives nearby. The two are united in a tatami room on the second floor of a soba restaurant. Soon Sumio goes to study in Paris, but during that time Otane realizes that she is pregnant with Sumio's child. Considered a lost film.

The Woman Who Touched The Legs

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