Hideo Fujino Movies

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...

After the death of her husband, an elderly woman and her youngest, unmarried daughter are forced to sell their house to cover his debts and decide to...

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

Japanese silent film from 1929.

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

The narrative is about a woman who faces hard times, when her husband is arrested for a crime committed by his boss. The woman also has a child to...

A film adaptation of the play by Leo Tolstoy.

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

The Siege of Osaka

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...

Uta’s mother died when she was six years old; her father she never met. She was forced to adopt a traveller’s life when her grandmother...

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

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run...

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a...