Tsunekichi Shibata Trailers
When the Cookie Crumbles TrailerThe Great White Tower TrailerDare yori mo kimi o aisu Trailer
Tsunekichi Shibata was one of Japan's first filmmakers. He worked for the photographer Shirō Asano and the Konishi Camera shop, the first in Japan to import a motion picture camera. Along with Kanzo Shirai, he took the earliest films in Japan, mostly of geisha, Ginza, and selections of scenes from popular plays. His first exhibition was at the Tokyo Kabuki-za in 1899. After that he focused mainly on Kabuki plays.
Most Popular Tsunekichi Shibata Trailers
Total trailers found: 12
20 September 1960
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.
01 October 1956
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue.
15 October 1966
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka.
09 June 1967
Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.
03 December 1899
'Armed Robber Shimizu Sadakicchi' is considered Japan's debut film and came on the heels of the country obtaining its first film camera.
04 February 1900
Pedestrian traffic on a square, somewhere in Tokyo.
28 November 1899
A reel of the Noh drama Momiji-gari, in which Danjuro Ichikawa played opposite Onoe Kikugoro V as an ogress who has disguised herself as the Princess Sarashina.
02 January 1899
Shot at the Kubut-za in Tokyo and a rare record of two classical kubuki actors, Onoe Eizaburo V and Ichimura Kakuki-za VI, A surviving poster for this film is illustrated by a woodblock print of the lead actors by ukiyo-e artist Yutaka Hitoshi, a frozen moment of the incipient transition from traditional art-forms of ukiyo-e and kabuki to the new, and all-dominating medium of katsudo-shashin (cinema).
01 April 1898
Rickshaws and pedestrians traffic on the street.
01 April 1898
Rickshaws, trams and pedestrians traffic near the railway station in Tokyo.
01 April 1898
Carts, pedestrians and bus traffic in the street.
01 January 1898
Rickshaws and pedestrians are moving in the street. Not to be confused with Constant Girel's "Une rue a Tokyo.
