Ranko Hanai Movies

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

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

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

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

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

Japanese war movie

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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...

Set in the late Edo period of the assassination of Dairo Ii, the sword and emotional romance that depicts the murderous world. The turmoil of the end...

Japanese historical film.

The story of five sisters.

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

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...

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...

1944 war movie