Ranko Hanai Movies

1950 Japanese movie

In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mistress joining the household....

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...

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

During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword...

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

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

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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

1930s Japanese film.

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

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

Japanese film.

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...

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