Misao Seki Movies

While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuru Aoki

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Masuo Inoue

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

This is the story of a samurai who falls on hard times due to misunderstandings and follows the plots of his enemies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Genre: History

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Yano is a small delivery boy for his uncle, who keeps a curio shop in Chinatown. His loves are Tama, his sweetheart, and Bengi, his dog. Bengi is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Steers

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Kazuko Aoyama

A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Japanese horror movie from 1929.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Junosuke Bandô

The Outside Woman is a lost 1921 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Douglas Bronston.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wanda Hawley

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junosuke Bandô

In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The Chinese prince T'Su Wong Shih loves Quan Yin, the daughter of a gardener, but his uncle wants him to marry a girl of his own class. Leaving to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

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Cast: Shinpei Takagi

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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

This is a classic Japanese Ghost Story.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kimiko Hara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tappatsu Sekine

The Vermilion Pencil is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Norman Dawn, and produced and distributed by Robertson–Cole. It is based...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

A nurse's tale of self-sacrifice during wartime. The title is borrowed from a patriotic song made popular by singer Hamako Watanabe during the Second...

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Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Period film from 1934.

Genre: History

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A young vassal is betrayed by his corrupt lord.

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Cast: Yukiko Ogawa