Torazo Hirosawa

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

1957 Japanese movie

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Hibari Misora musical.

Japanese film.

This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs...

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

The rise of the famed gambler.

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.