Yōko Umemura Movies

A Japanese silent film

Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth...

1942 Japanese movie

Mitsue is a popular stage actress and the lover of a shamisen player named Seijuro. She jealously murders two other objects of his affection: Okiyo,...

Follows the life of an illegitimate son of a kabuki actor.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

Silent Japanese film.

Okichi, a woman trapped in a criminal scheme by two con men, finds her life of deception threatened when she unexpectedly falls in love with the son...

Silent Japanese film.

Silent Japanese film.

Directed by Kichiro Tsuji.

A story about Ômura Masujirô

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...

A lost Mizoguchi film.