Movies: Misao Seki

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife....

This is the story of a samurai who falls on hard times due to misunderstandings and follows the plots of his enemies....

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him....

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After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a m...

Japanese horror movie from 1929....

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

In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the local lord and substitute his own "heir", an orphan, in order to get control of the late lord's estate ...

Japanese war film....

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 feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier...

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second Sino-Japanese War....

The Outside Woman is a lost 1921 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Douglas Bronston....

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto....

A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji....

The Chinese prince T'Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. Leaving to study in the United States, the young man promises his beloved that they two will be together soon. Hav...

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While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Austra...

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Period film from 1934....