Hôtei Nomura — Director (3)

Movie

Useless Button (1926)
カラボタン IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: カラボタン / 衣领扣 …
A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over something trivial, and her wife runs away from home, causing a fuss, but she returns to normal. Selected by Kinema Junpo as the 5th-best Japanese movie of 1926.

Movie

Eien no nazo (1922)
IMDb Douban
野村芳亭 actor: 井上正夫 / 岡本五郎 …
other title: 永遠の謎
長田幹彦作の新聞小説の映画化で、他社と競作になったが、当時他社の現代劇は女形を使っていたので、川田芳子や栗島すみ子の出演した松竹映画は圧倒的に勝った。