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しかも彼等は行く (1931)
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Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.
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紙人形春の囁き (1926)
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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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陸の人魚 (1926)
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Directed by Yutaka Abe (as Jack Abe).
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晴小袖 (1940)
Character: 三次郎の母お直
A lost film directed by Ushihara Kiyohiko based on a story published in the Mainichi Sunday Newspaper entitled '恋女扇.' It stars a wild man who falls passionately in love with a woman.
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唐人お吉 (1930)
Character: Okichi
Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.
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お嬢お吉 (1935)
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Okichi, a woman trapped in a criminal scheme by two con men, finds her life of deception threatened when she unexpectedly falls in love with the son of a wealthy merchant.
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初姿 (1936)
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Japan's first feature film directed by a female. The film was about the naïve, premature emotions between a young geisha-to-be and a youth destined for Buddhist priesthood; it concluded with their separation.
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浪花女 (1940)
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When wealthy Ochika marries desolute Danpei, she devotes herself completely to him and takes over her business, to the point of sowing dissensions within the Jōruri troupe in which her husband plays.
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足にさわった女 (1926)
Character: Hamako Kasugai
A twice-remade ironic comedy about a writer's encounter with a female thief.
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芸道一代男 (1941)
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Follows the life of an illegitimate son of a kabuki actor.
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怪猫 謎の三味線 (1938)
Character: Osen
Mitsue is a popular stage actress and the lover of a shamisen player named Seijuro. She jealously murders two other objects of his affection: Okiyo, a young woman from a samurai family, and Kuro, a cat. The spirits of Okiyo and Kuro then merge into a vengeful ghost.
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虞美人草 (1935)
Character: Fujio's mother
Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to up-and-coming diplomat Munechika. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. However, she becomes enamoured with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono himself is bound by an engagement to Sayoko, daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue.
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祇園の姉妹 (1936)
Character: Umekichi
A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife. However, her younger sister opposes this, thinking that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them.
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マリヤのお雪 (1935)
Character: Michiko Yokoi
When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.
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残菊物語 (1939)
Character: Osata
In late 19th-century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that the praise he receives is only due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully joins him.
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浪華悲歌 (1936)
Character: Sumiko Asai
Ayako becomes the mistress of her boss in order to pay her father's debt and prevent him from going to prison for embezzlement.
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赤西蠣太 (1936)
Character: Masaoka
A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
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元禄 忠臣蔵 (1941)
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In the early 18th-century, Lord Takuminokami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Asano to seppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Kira. Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the Lord's dishonour. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi seeks to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses, and Oishi and 46 rōnin are out for revenge.
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