Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

A tragic period film about a gangster who comes out of prison and finds it hard to find a place again in society. Considered a lost film.

This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement. Considered a lost film.

A story about Kinsaburo Kamiya, who infiltrated the Satsuma clan at the end of the Edo period. Based on the novel "Satsuma Hikyaku" by Jiro Daibutsu, and a sequel to Satsuma Hikyaku Tokai Hen (Satsuma Courier: Eastern Sea Story) directed by Daisuke Ito in 1932

Yamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. The Life of Bangaku

An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji kidan (The Samurai Detective, aka The Detective Records of Umon, aka Detective Umon Diary: Exploit Number Six, 1930). Umon on his shining white horse stops a conspiracy against the Shogun. Umon was played by Kanjuro Arashi in this early film, & long after in the post-Occupation jidaigeki revival he reprised the role in Kajiro Yamamoto's Muttsuri Umon torimonocho (1955), helping to launch the renewed interest in such films.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

Iso no Genta accidentally kills a magistrate and becomes a yakuza. Considered a lost film.

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.