Ranko Hanai Movies

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...

1930s Japanese film.

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

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

Japanese noir.

A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes...

Japanese film.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

1944 war movie

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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...

1948 Japanese drama film.