Yukiko Ogawa

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honorable side of himself, and maybe some form of redemption. Considered a lost film.

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

Kind of the Japanese equivalent of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, this film is a fictionalized version of the gang battle in the later Edo period, which ended up in a direct duel between Kira no Nikichi (Ryunosuke Tsukigata) and Ano Toku (Dennosuke Ichikawa).

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a murderer, wants to sacrifice herself for him and become a prostitute to pay for Rikiya's treatment.

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the prince's concubines.

A young vassal is betrayed by his corrupt lord.

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.