Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Read More »
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Priest of Darkness / Kochiyama soshun (1936) Sadao Yamanaka, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Based on a well-known Kabuki drama titled “Kochiyama to Naozamurai”, which Yamanaka distills Read More »
Ninjô kami fûsen / Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) Sadao Yamanaka, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Kan’emon Nakamura, Tsuruzô Nakamura, Drama
The story develops in the Tokugawa era of the 18th century, in a poor district of Tokyo, where impoverished samurai live from hand to mouth among equally poor people of lower social classes. Read More »