Ranko Hanai Movies

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

The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form...

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

1944 war movie

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

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 wo...

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

A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a mi...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

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

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for...

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled child...

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

1950 Japanese movie