Ranko Hanai
Birthday: 1918-07-15
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Hot Wind
Set in wartime at the Yawata Steel Works in Tobata, Yawata, and Kokura cities in Fukuoka Prefecture,...
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The Best Lord in Japan
At the residence of a feudal lord in a mountain province, a young lord, accompanied by his vassals a...
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Sanshiro Sugata
A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujuts...
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Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi...
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Repast
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...
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Wife of a Lily
This is a rokyoku film of Tenjuken Ungetsu II (Hideko Itami), a popular rokyoku performer who was fa...
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Blizzard Ronin
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane....
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The Monkey King
A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The S...
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Ginza Cosmetics
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....
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The Fighting Firemen
Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger...
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A Wife's Heart
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close ...
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The Shiinomi School
A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error,...
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Where Chimneys Are Seen
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-midd...
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Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many...
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Zenigata Heiji Detective Story: Heiji Covers All of Edo
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized...
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Love Letter
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letter...
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The Way of Drama
The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...
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The Tale of Jiro
Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His i...
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Military Song of the Morning Mist
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times....
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A Fond Face from the Past
A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, ...
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Nonki saiban
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts re...
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Duel at Yagyu Valley
During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend ...
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Ishimatsu from the Forest
The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw. Considered a lost film....
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Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose me...
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Miki, the Swordman
After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his il...
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Yasubei Horibe
Pre-war jidaigeki film from 1936, produced by Uzumasa Hassei Eiga studios...
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Under the Blossoming Peach
A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring...
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The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountai...
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Living Image
A film dealing with the comings and goings of individuals in the immediate postwar period....
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Ōma no tsuji
Set in the late Edo period of the assassination of Dairo Ii, the sword and emotional romance that de...
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Sky of Hope
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited marr...
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Fallen Blossoms
Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration...
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近藤勇 池田屋騒動
Kyoto in the third year of Bunkyu. --Serizawa Kamo, the head of the Shinsengumi, and the group aroun...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Bride in a Bathing Suit
Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the n...
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A Town with a Mountain and River
In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mist...
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A Sister's Promise
A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a docto...
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The College Hero
Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at M...
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