Kanjūrō Arashi Movies

The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Teppei Yamaguchi. It is part...

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

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...

Kyoto in the third year of Bunkyu. --Serizawa Kamo, the head of the Shinsengumi, and the group around him spend their days and nights having fun in...

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

Japanese noir.

Japanese film.

1959 Japanese film.

The story of a timid samurai attempting to rid his name of the stigma attached to it.

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...

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

A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.

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...

Detective Umon investigates a wave of counterfeit money in Edo linked to the murder of a mint official. His search leads him to a mysterious...

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

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.