Ranko Hanai Movies

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw. Considered a lost film.

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

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

A yakuza bodyguard is persuaded by Ōhara Yūgaku to take the farmers’ side.

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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...

Japanese film.

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

Japanese war movie

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

1961 Japanese movie

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

Kyoto in the third year of Bunkyu. --Serizawa Kamo, the head of the Shinsengumi, and the group around him spend their days and nights having fun in...

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...

1950 Japanese movie