Sôjin Kamiyama
Also Known As: Mitsugu Mita, Содзин Камияма, Mita Tadashi
Biography: Sōjin Kamiyama or just Sōjin was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1917 and 1954.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 28, 1884
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 28, 1954
Popularity:
Known For:
Seven Footprints to Satan
Overview: A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction of a mysterious Mr. Satan.
Genres: Crime Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-27
Popularity:
The Bat
Overview: A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-03-14
Popularity:
The Sea Beast
Overview: Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-15
Popularity:
The Dude Wrangler
Overview: In order to prove his manliness to the girl he loves, a young urban dandy takes a job at a dude ranch. Predictable misadventure ensues in this poorly-made early talkie.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-01
Popularity:
The Thief of Bagdad
Overview: A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
Genres: Romance Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-03-18
Popularity:
Foreign Devils
Overview: Capt. Robert Kelly holds off the foreign mob single-handed and makes good his escape during the Boxer rebellion.
Genres: Action History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-03
Popularity:
Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido
Overview: A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-08
Popularity:
The Devil of Edo
Overview: Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-05-06
Popularity:
Driven from Home
Overview: A father throws his daughter out of the house when she marries a man he doesn't approve of. In addition, she also finds herself being lusted after by the sinister owner of an opium den.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-15
Popularity:
The Honorable Mr. Buggs
Overview: Mr. Buggs is an insect collector. A beautiful and mysterious Asian woman (the lovely Anna May Wong) brings him a rare specimen, but she is actually a wanted thief who has stolen a valuable brooch.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-24
Popularity:
Why Girls Love Sailors
Overview: Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-07-17
Popularity:
Chinatown Charlie
Overview: A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-15
Popularity:
Eve's Leaves
Overview: After forming his own studio in 1925, Cecil B. DeMille produced this exuberant blend of orientalist melodrama and gender-bending comedy featuring his THE TEN COMMANDMENTS leading lady Leatrice Joy. An over-protective sea captain forces his daughter Eve to pass as a boy. But she craves romance and sets her sights on a handsome American tourist (Boyd) who still thinks she's a boy when she shanghais him aboard her father's ship; then a lustful Chinese pirate (Walter Long) takes them prisoner. Joy, an appealing comedienne whose career nosedived when talkies came in, sparkles in both her tomboy and love-hungry phases. -Martin Rubin, Gene Siskel Film Center
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-10
Popularity:
The Lady of the Harem
Overview: Rafi arrives in the city in search of Pervaneh who was taken by the Sultan. He is joined by Hassan the confectioner. Rafi is captured by the Sultan, but Hassan leads a surprise attack on the palace and the lovers are united.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-11-01
Popularity:
Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-12-01
Popularity:
The Devil Dancer
Overview: An English explorer disturbed by the practices of an isolated tribe attempts to rescue a native girl he has become fascinated with. THE DEVIL DANCER was highly praised at time of release for its exquisite cinematography, especially in the use of light and shadow. The film received an Academy Award nomination in this category. Sadly, it is among the lost. No prints or negatives are known to survive.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-03
Popularity:
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
Overview: 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 lumberland epic with a forest fire on Sakhalin Island, turns into a tragedy of King Lear dimensions, and manages to amaze the blasé audience with a happy end in the Wild West.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-04-17
Popularity:
Housewife Camellia
Overview: 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 look after, and they end up meeting several colorful personalities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-10-04
Popularity:
Kokumin no chikai
Overview: This film was mainly shot in the Japanese skiing resort Hokkaido in 1937-38 and was intended to create support for the coming winter olympics of 1940 in Japan which however were cancelled because of the Japanese-Chinese war. A Japanese production, it was nevertheless made with German involvement in the form of skiing champion Sepp Rist and celebrated cinematographer Richard Angst (who also contributed to the script). Both had regularly worked with the inventor of the mountain film genre, Dr. Arnold Fanck, who had helmed the German-Japanese co-production "Die Tochter des Samurai", also shot by Angst, the year before. Angst apparently stayed in Japan until mid-1939 when he returned to Germany, carrying this film with him. Angst submitted it to the German censors later that year, but for reasons unknown to me it took three more years before the film was finally shown in Germany under the name "Das heilige Ziel" (The Holy Aim). (Karargara)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-11-16
Popularity:
Five Siblings
Overview: 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 to restore its name and fortune
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-07-20
Popularity:
Golden Dawn
Overview: Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-14
Popularity:
The Road to Mandalay
Overview: Joe, a former sea captain whose wife died during the birth of their child at sea, is now a pockmarked, disreputable divekeeper in Singapore where he indulges in shady operations with Herrick, known as The Admiral. They ship for Mandalay, where Joe's daughter lives with a priest, Father James, and tends a curio shop, unaware that her father regularly sends money to Father James for her support. Although his daughter clearly finds him abhorrent, Joe determines to take her away until he learns that The Admiral has fallen in love with her and plans to marry her. He persuades Father James (actually his brother) not to perform the ceremony, and The Admiral is shanghaied by Joe's men. The girl, suspecting Joe, goes to his brothel in Singapore and is about to be assaulted by Charlie, a lecherous Chinaman, when Joe intervenes and is stabbed. The Admiral comes to her rescue and escapes with her on a boat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-06-26
Popularity:
China Slaver
Overview: The Chinese Secret Service sends an undercover agent to investigate reports of an island ruled by a Chinese criminal named The Cobra who holds the residents in virtual slavery while running his illegal narcotics and white-slavery empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-25
Popularity:
Way for a Sailor
Overview: A devoted sailor jeopardizes his love life for love of the sea.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
Popularity:
The Unholy Night
Overview: When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-13
Popularity:
Kokusai Mitsuyudan
Overview: Directed by Daisuke Ito.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-05-11
Popularity:
Proud Flesh
Overview: The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but he follows her. She is rescued from a wild taxi ride by a passerby who owns a huge plumbing company. Believing him to be a common plumber, she snubs him, but he pursues her and a romantic rivalry is born.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-04-27
Popularity:
The Hawk's Nest
Overview: Lost 1928 film by Benjamin Benjamin Christensen
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-27
Popularity:
East of Suez
Overview: After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that she has become a social outcast, owing to the public revelation that the oriental nurse who raised her was actually her mother...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-12
Popularity:
Ships of the Night
Overview: In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne encounters pirates, a Chinaman with a harem and criminals as slaves, and love on a desert island for ship captain Dan Meloy.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-27
Popularity:
Okoto and Sasuke
Overview: A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-06-15
Popularity:
The Chinese Parrot
Overview: The plot is motivated by a pearl necklace, which has caused the death and/or ruination of all its owners. The second screen appearance of detective Charlie Chan
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-23
Popularity:
The Loyal 47 Ronin
Overview: 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 feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier. As the first sound version of the classic narrative, the film was something of an event, and employed a stellar cast, who give a roster of memorable performances. Director Teinosuke Kinugasa was primarily a specialist in jidai-geki (period films), such as the internationally celebrated Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1953), and although he is now most famous as the maker of the avant-garde silent films A Page of Madness (Kurutta ichipeji, 1926) and Crossroads (Jujiro, 1928), Chushingura is in fact more typical of his output than those experimental works. The film ranked third in that year’s Kinema Junpo critics’ poll, and Joseph Anderson and Donald Richie noted that 'not only the sound but the quick cutting was admired by many critics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-01
Popularity:
Seven Samurai
Overview: A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-26
Popularity:
Patria
Overview: Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-14
Popularity:
The Lucky Lady
Overview: Convent-bred to assume her position of nobility when the time comes, Princess Antoinette plays hooky from school one day to attend a theatrical performance. Here she meets a handsome young American, and it's love at first sight. Meanwhile, in the Princess' home country, the Prime Minister plots to quell a rebellion by arranging a marriage between Antoinette and the Grand Duke.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-04-25
Popularity:
Careers
Overview: In French Indochina, a magistrate is assigned to investigate the murder of his boss. Unknown to him, the boss had a policy of requiring the wives of his subordinates to sleep with him if they wanted their husbands to get promoted. What he also didn't know was that his wife was in the boss' office when he was killed. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-02
Popularity:
Lumberjack and Lady
Overview: A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some great comedy and drama from a team of distinctive appearance who are exploiting their silent cinema styles to the full.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-01-07
Popularity:
Foghorn
Overview: A Japanese woman, the mistress of an American, falls in love with her servant.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-03-03
Popularity:
My Lady's Lips
Overview: A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A reporter who has infiltrated the gang to get a story falls in love with the gang's female leader, and when the two are caught in a police raid, they find themselves in equal amounts of trouble.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-01
Popularity:
The Golden Demon
Overview: A penniless orphan loses the woman he loves, when her family arranges a marriage to a wealthy playboy. He believes she was blinded by greed, and becomes a miser.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-06-10
Popularity:
Madame X
Overview: A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son again despite her earnest attempts to make amends. For many years the mother seeks refuge overseas and in Absinthe. In the end, her son, a young and promising lawyer unknowingly defends her in court. Ruth Chatterton gives a marvelous performance in this early talkie in her portrayal of Madame X.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-17
Popularity:
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Overview: Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-25
Popularity:
The Wanderer
Overview: Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha with gifts and spends his share of his father's wealth on riotous living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-08-19
Popularity:
Akanishi Kakita
Overview: A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-06-18
Popularity:
The King of Kings
Overview: The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-19
Popularity:
Tropic Madness
Overview: Herbert Pomeroy's wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankruptcy. Desperate, he sends his son Frankie to live with his friend Henderson, a South Seas trader, then commits suicide. Although Juanita spends years searching for her son, she finally gives up and takes a world cruise on the yacht of wealthy Jules Lennox. One day the yacht docks on Henderson's island and Juanita, meeting Henderson, persuades him to let her be Frankie's governess. Complications ensue, involving a poor physician, a jealous island woman and a witch doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-19
Popularity:
Soft Shoes
Overview: Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and flashlight breaks into his hotel room and demands that Halahan cough up his dough. Halahan sees her threat and raises her a one-dollar bet that he can return a brooch she stole earlier the same evening before its loss is discovered. Pulling off his boots to slip on his own “soft shoes,” Halahan sets off to do a little second-story work, not realizing the trouble he’s in for.
Genres: Western Romance Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
Popularity:
The Crimson City
Overview: Gregory Kent is on the run for a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-07
Popularity:
The Thirteenth Hour
Overview: A detective goes in search for the villain responsible for several burglaries and a murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-17
Popularity:
Around the World with Douglas Fairbanks
Overview: With the advent of sound, the world's leading screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, experienced a downturn in his fortunes. His thin, reedy voice was not suited to the talkies, his marriage to Mary Pickford was on the outs, and his son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., had replaced him as a major box-office draw. Faced with the Hollywood equivalent of a mid-life crisis, Doug called up three of his best friends - director Victor Fleming, cinematographer Henry Sharp, and production manager Charles Lewis - and took them on a six-month tour of Asia, ostensibly to shoot a travelogue for United Artists (of which Fairbanks was still a major shareholder.) Their first stop is Honolulu, followed in quick succession by Japan, China, Peking, Hong Kong, Indochina, the Philippines, Siam, and India. Fairbanks and company spend time at such noteworthy spots as the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, the Summer Palace and the Sun Yat-Sen Mausoleum.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-19
Popularity:
Show of Shows
Overview: Now hear this. The studio that gave the cinema its voice offered 1929 audiences a chance to see and hear multiple silent-screen favorites for the first time in a gaudy, grandiose music-comedy-novelty revue that also included Talkie stars, Broadway luminaries and of course, Rin-Tin-Tin. Frank Fay hosts a jamboree that, among its 70+ stars, features bicyclers, boxing champ Georges Carpentier, chorines in terpsichore kickery, sister acts, Myrna Loy in two-strip Technicolor as an exotic Far East beauty, John Barrymore in a Shakespearean soliloquy (adding an on-screen voice to his legendary profile for the first time) and Winnie Lightner famously warbling the joys of Singing in the Bathtub. Watch, rinse, repeat!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
Popularity:
Across the Pacific
Overview: Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding officer, whom he is romancing.
Genres: Adventure Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-10-02
Popularity:
Men vs. Women
Overview: A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-08-29
Popularity:
The Siege of Osaka
Overview: The Siege of Osaka
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-04-01
Popularity:
Kurama Tengu
Overview: Directed by Daisuke Itô.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-29
Popularity:
Streets of Shanghai
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-15
Popularity:
The Sky Pirate
Overview: Amateur criminologist is hired by the Secret Service to track down airplane thieves, who then kidnap his ex-fiancée, leading to a daring escape and a love story amidst aerial adventures.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-11-26
Popularity:
Something Always Happens
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-28
Popularity:
The Haunted Ship
Overview:
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-01
Popularity: