Sôjin Kamiyama

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Beranger

A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Thelma Todd

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gilda Gray

Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Walter Woolf King

A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Gilbert

When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ernest Torrence

A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Chatterton

The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eleanor Boardman

After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pola Negri

In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne encounters pirates, a Chinaman with a harem and criminals...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jacqueline Logan

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Marian Nixon

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Irene Castle

Convent-bred to assume her position of nobility when the time comes, Princess Antoinette plays hooky from school one day to attend a theatrical...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Greta Nissen

A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shozaburo Abe

A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Takashi Shimura

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Alyce Mills

A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Daijirō Natsukawa

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Nissen

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: H.B. Warner

Herbert Pomeroy's wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankruptcy. Desperate, he sends his son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leatrice Joy

Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and...

Genre: Western

Cast: Harry Carey

Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit.

Genre: Action

Cast: Myrna Loy

A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks

Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Frank Fay

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Monte Blue

The Siege of Osaka

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Directed by Daisuke Itô.

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pauline Starke

Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Barrymore

In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this...

Genre: Western

Cast: Tom Keene

Capt. Robert Kelly holds off the foreign mob single-handed and makes good his escape during the Boxer rebellion.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tim McCoy

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

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Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna May Wong

Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anna May Wong

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stan Laurel

A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Hines

After forming his own studio in 1925, Cecil B. DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and gender-bending comedy featuring his...

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Cast: Leatrice Joy

Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ernest Torrence

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

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...

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Cast: Sôjin Kamiyama

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940...

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Cast: Tomio Aoki

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

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Cast: Tomio Aoki

The Chinese Secret Service sends an undercover agent to investigate reports of an island ruled by a Chinese criminal named The Cobra who holds the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sôjin Kamiyama

Directed by Daisuke Ito.

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Joe, a former sea captain whose wife died during the birth of their child at sea, is now a pockmarked, disreputable divekeeper in Singapore where he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lon Chaney

Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen

Genre: Drama

Cast: Milton Sills

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billie Dove