Masashi Kobayashi

The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji Revolution. The film has not survived.

Dr. Pacenstein and Eeghost are plotting to ruin Pac's Halloween dinner plans at Transylpacia Castle and it is up to a scary neighbor to save the night.

Sweat (1929) is a slapstick riff on tendency-film themes, as a bored young millionaire has his clothes stolen by a tramp; dressed in the tramp’s clothes, he has to accept work as a labourer. As the hero ends up building the mausoleum he had himself commissioned.

A man rises in society by cheating, but the institutions in turn take their revenge.

The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji Revolution. The film has not survived.

The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.