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The Unwritten Code Synopsis

Kimura, a drunk and a gambler, has no affection for his daughter Kiku-San, who falls in love with Dick Tower, an American college friend of her brother Okuma. After Suzuki, a geisha house proprietor, meets Kiku-San, he runs up Kimura's bill to such an exorbitant amount, that Kimura readily agrees to give him Kiku-San as payment. Seeing her peril, Tower and his friend Thompson rescue Kiku-San after fighting Suzuki and his patrons. Tower takes her to his home, and because this compromises her, they marry. Kiku-San and Tower are happy until his friends at the American Club snub them. Even Thompson encourages Tower to divorce her. After Tower meets Margaret, a wealthy American widow, he tires of being ostracized, and becomes cold to Kiku-San. Her sadness, conveyed to Okuma, causes him to threaten to kill Tower unless she refuses to go with him to America for Christmas. She does refuse, and Tower sails with Margaret, happy with the belief that Kiku-San wanted the separation, while Kiku-San sits in sorrow among cherry blossom trees.

Straight from the Shoulder Synopsis

Bill Higgins arrives in a small western mining town and immediately causes trouble with the residents. He gets into a fight with Buck and is injured. Buck nurses him back to health and discovers that Higgins, a resident of nearby Peaceful Valley, has been thrown out of his house by his wife because of his excessive drinking. Buck travels to Peaceful Valley to try to get Bill's wife to take him back, but he runs into a lot more trouble than he was counting on.