Kaichi Yamamoto — Actor (12)

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Mito Kômon (1926)
水戸黄門 IMDb Douban
other title: 水户黄门 / 水戸黄門
About one of Japan's most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the sage who wanders the countryside rectifying government corruption along with his faithful attendants

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Banquet Under the Midnight Sun (1932)
白夜の饗宴 IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: 白夜の饗宴 / Byakuya no Kyoen
In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status. He nevertheless pursues her until her initial disgust breaks down into fondness, then romantic feelings, inducing her to abandon her fiance on their wedding day.

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Sonno Joi (1927)
建国史 尊王攘夷 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: 建国史 尊王攘夷 / 建國史 尊王攘夷 …
For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took the direct approach that the Dutch had been unwilling to take, the ruling Shogun knew that the dynasty was over. As the shogun began to open up to the outside world, the Sonno Joi movement called for this to be reversed...

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A Paper Doll's Whisper of Spring (1926)
紙人形春の囁き WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: 紙人形春の囁き / Les Murmures d'une poupée en papier Haru …
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 tatami room on the second floor of a soba restaurant. Soon Sumio goes to study in Paris, but during that time Otane realizes that she is pregnant with Sumio's child. Considered a lost film.

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Chûshingura (1926)
Douban
池田富保 actor: 尾上松之助 / 山本嘉一 …
other title: 実録忠臣蔵 地の巻 / 忠臣蔵
公開時の題名は『実録忠臣蔵』。生涯で1000本以上の映画に出演した日本最初の国民的大スターの尾上松之助が、人間味ある大石内蔵助を重厚に演じ、監督の池田富保は、山鹿流鶴翼の陣形など史実に基づき格調高く仕上げ、以降の『忠臣蔵』映画の規範を示した作品である。