Ranko Hanai Movies

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

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

1961 Japanese movie

1950 Japanese movie

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

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death...

1948 Japanese drama film.

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...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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....

A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a doctor who has to join the army and work at war. The...

Japanese noir.

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Japanese film.

1944 war movie

At the residence of a feudal lord in a mountain province, a young lord, accompanied by his vassals and courtiers, listens to the rokyoku singer...

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

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...