大尉の娘
Inoue was an early supporter of cinema and directed a reformist film, "The Captain's Daughter" (Taii no musume, 1917) for Kobayashi Shōkai, at the time of the Pure Film Movement. He is most famous in the West for his starring role in Teinosuke Kinugasa's experimental masterpiece "A Page of Madness" (1926), which he helped support by refusing payment for his services.