Ranko Hanai Movies

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

1930s Japanese film.

Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast...

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

Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at Meikyo University.

Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the nephew of a powerful businessman. She refuses,...

A narrative rakugo film depicting the struggles of people desperately living under wartime conditions.

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

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...

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

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

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 film.

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

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends...