Ranko Hanai Movies

Japanese film.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

1950 Japanese movie

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

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

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, the film depicts people taking on the evil blast...

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...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

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

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

1930s Japanese film.

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...