Ranko Hanai Movies

A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...

1961 Japanese movie

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

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

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death...

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

At the residence of a feudal lord in a mountain province, a young lord, accompanied by his vassals and courtiers, listens to the rokyoku singer...

1944 war movie

Pre-war jidaigeki film from 1936, produced by Uzumasa Hassei Eiga studios

This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was famous for her seven different voices for men and...

Japanese war movie

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

Japanese noir.