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....

1950 Japanese movie

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

1930s Japanese film.

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

A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period.

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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

Pre-war jidaigeki film from 1936, produced by Uzumasa Hassei Eiga studios

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

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...

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...