Jun Arai Movies

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Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuko Wakamizu

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Cast: Jun Arai

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Cast: Hideo Takeda

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Cast: Tsuzuya Moroguchi

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Cast: Denmei Suzuki

Toshie, a young, conservative secretary-typist has fallen in love with Shozo Narita, a young man she has met through her work.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emiko Yagumo

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiko Iizuka

The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of alienation in the world of money, develops into a...

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Cast: Jun Arai

The film is a lengthy work interweaving characters from different backgrounds and social strata in a narrative centered around the experiences of its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joji Oka

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomio Aoki

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukichi Iwata

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

A Japanese short film, the earliest extant film of the great director Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Cast: Mariko Aoyama

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Part two of Shimizu's major silent Seven Seas, a family drama of the intertwining fates of the rich, decadent Yagibashis and the far less prosperous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

Directed by Eizo Tanaka. Only 8 minutes of film is known to have survived.

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Cast: Hideo Fujino

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Okada

In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata