Ranko Hanai Movies

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Japanese noir.

The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw.

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...

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....

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Japanese historical film.

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

Japanese war movie

1930s Japanese film.

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

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...