( 1) Chuji tabi nikki: Shinshu kessho hen
(Chuji's Travel Diary: The Shinshu Bloody Smile Episode)
Director:Daisuke Itô
Production Co.:Nikkatsu
Survival status :Incomplete print survives (approx. 1 reel)
( 2) Five Women Around Him (Kare o meguru gonin no onna)
Director:Yutaka Abe
Production Co.:Nikkatsu
Survival status :Lost
( 3) Son'nô jôi (Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians)
Director:Tomiyasu Ikeda
Production Co.:Nikkatsu
Survival status :Incomplete print survives (approx.2/3 of the original)
( 4) Chuji tabi nikki: Goyo hen
Director:Daisuke Itô
Production Co.:Nikkatsu
Survival status :Incomplete print survives (approx.2/3 of the original)
( 5) Umi no Yûsha (The Brave Men of the Sea)
Director:Yasujirô Shimazu
Production Co.:Shochiku
Survival status :Lost Director:
( 6) Karakuri Musume (The Trick Girl)
Director:Heinosuke Gosho
Production Co.:Shochiku
Survival status :Lost
( 7) Jihi shinchô (Bird of Mercy)
Director:Kenji Mizoguchi
Production Co.:Nikkatsu
Survival status :Lost
( 8) Akumano hoshi no sita ni (Under the Star of Devil)
Director:Buntaro Futagawa
Production Co.:Makino
Survival status :Lost
( 9) Gerô (The Servant)
Director:Daisuke Itô
Production Co.:Nikkatsu
Survival status :Lost
(10) Dochu hiki (A Tragic Travel Tale)
Director:Kintarô Inoue
Production Co.:Makino
Survival status :Lost
The numbers of ranked titles of each Production Co, is as follows:
Nikkatsu : 6 (1-4,7, and 9);
Shochiku : 2 (5 and 6); and
Makino : 2 (8 and 10).
The following title is available on DVD as of 11/23/2016:
( 3) Son'nô jô_Japan_ASIN: B002GI515S
(*) The region code of Japanese DVD is "2".
Please note that number 10 on this list, "Dochu hiki" (sometimes translated as "A Traveler's Journey of Sorrow") was the source for Tomu Uchida's classic comeback film, "A Bloody Spear at Mt. Fuji," ranked 8th in the 1955 Kinema Junpo poll. Inoue had been a friend and former roommate of Uchida's, but he never saw the remake: he had died in 1954.
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