Ranko Hanai Movies

Japanese noir.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility....

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

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

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

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

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

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

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...

The story of five sisters.

Japanese film.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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...

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

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.

Japanese war movie