Kanjūrō Arashi Movies

First part - Edo at the end of the Edo period, when the wind and clouds were rising rapidly - The people gathered at Kiba late at night are Shinnojo...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...

1959 Japanese film.

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

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

Directed by Daisuke Itô.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Iso no Genta accidentally kills a magistrate and becomes a yakuza. Considered a lost film.

An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji kidan (The Samurai Detective, aka The Detective Records...

Japanese film.

The movie begins with a mysterious murder and Umon Kondo, a Doshin, so called drag-ass Umon, who dallies away lying sprawled all day long, launches...

Japan-Hong Kong co-production.

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...

Lord Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori was charged with receiving a group of envoys from the Imperial Court in Kyoto. He was young and slightly...

Japanese film.