Jun Arai Movies

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

It is considered to be a lost film.

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.

Short Japanese silent comedy from 1926. Directed by "Kamata Nonkinosuke," a probable pseudonym for a junior director (literally "Carefree Man from...

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

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

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...

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son....

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...

Japanese silent film from 1929.

It is considered to be a lost film.

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

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

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

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....

1926 silent film directed by Heinosuke Gosho.

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

Japanese silent film from 1928.