Jun Arai Movies

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...

Japanese silent film from 1928. Kinema Junpo ranked it among the ten best Japanese movies of the year.

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...

It is considered to be a lost film.

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

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...

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

Japanese silent film from 1930. Directed by Heinosuke Gosho, the film marked a new stage in the artistry of Kinuyo Tanaka, earning acclaim strong...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Japanese silent film from 1928, co-starring Chojiro Hayashi and up-and-coming actress Kinuyo Tanaka.

The Japanese debut film of silent-era star Sessue Hayakawa, in which he not only starred but directed.

Japanese film from 1933, adapted from Masao Kume's serialized newspaper novel.

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

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Because of her husband’s suicide, a young widow finds herself suddenly cast into a life of solitude, with only her beloved child in her arms....

First chapter of Tasujiro Shimazu's ABC Lifeline, released two months before ABC Lifeline: Part 1 and ABC Lifeline: Part 2.