Ranko Hanai Movies

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

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

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

A narrative rakugo film depicting the struggles of people desperately living under wartime conditions.

1930s Japanese film.

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

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

1950 Japanese movie

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled...

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

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

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...

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....