Yoshie Nakagawa Movies

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

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

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

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the prince's concubines.

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...

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...

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

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is...

Nanjo Mikisaburo is a young samurai trying to restore his ruined family to its past glory. Enduring the contempt and disdain of high-ranking samurai,...

Period film from 1934.

A semidocumentary film about female pearl divers and fishermen.

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...