Ranko Hanai Movies

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

1930s Japanese film.

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

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...

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

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

Set in the late Edo period of the assassination of Dairo Ii, the sword and emotional romance that depicts the murderous world. The turmoil of the end...

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....

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Japanese historical film. Considered Lost.

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

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

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...

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

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...