Kanjūrō Arashi
Birthday: 1903-12-08
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Once and For All Pt.２
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro....
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Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life
End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of t...
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Thus the Divine Wind Blows
Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono ...
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Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continu...
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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s ...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking con...
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Yasubei Nakayama
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge aga...
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Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth
Period film about the legendary detective Umon...
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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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A Colt Is My Passport
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy....
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13 Assassins
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when on...
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Kurama Tengu
Kurama Tengu is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Te...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to c...
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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Ory...
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Kanto Street Peddlers
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by ...
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The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga...
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red...
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White-haired Demon
A man dies in an automobile accident and returns as a white-haired demon and seeks revenge on his wi...
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East China Sea
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of...
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Kurama Tengu
This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bank...
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Taiko's Rising in the World
Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the sto...
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Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man
This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a...
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Kurama Tengu: Anonymous letter to Tengu
Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassina...
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100 Gamblers
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss tak...
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's ...
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Chushingura: The Truth
Lord Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori was charged with receiving a group of envoys from the Imperial Co...
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The Skull Coin
“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The...
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Umon's First Exploit
The movie begins with a mysterious murder and Umon Kondo, a Doshin, so called drag-ass Umon, who dal...
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Blood of Revenge
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and ru...
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense...
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Gale Winds! Tengu Karama
The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi....
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Iso-no-genta's Sword
Iso no Genta accidentally kills a magistrate and becomes a yakuza. Considered a lost film....
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Female Yakuza Tale
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs in...
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The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu
The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompa...
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Kurama Tengu: Acrobat in a lion mask
Two child performers lose their money, but are saved by the masked avenger Kurama Tengu. When the ch...
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The Elder Sister
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight....
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Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events...
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Emperor Meiji and General Nogi
In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply...
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Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it ...
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Teru hi kumoru hi dainihen Part 01
First part - Edo at the end of the Edo period, when the wind and clouds were rising rapidly - The pe...
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The Path of the King
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have...
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Dead Angle
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...
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Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to...
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Traitors of the Blue Castle
Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself....
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Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The s...
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Holiday in Japan
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding....
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The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5....
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Kenkyō edo-murasaki
Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding....
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Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to...
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the sout...
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Dynamite Don-Don
Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between th...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few ...
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The Fort of Death
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoi...
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Abashiri Prison
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped ...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t...
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The Private Police
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kami...
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Showdown at Nagasaki
When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field ...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove t...
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Modern Lady Gambler
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betra...
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Detective Umon's Diary, Story No. 6
An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji kidan ...
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Orange Road Express
A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an ec...
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Jigoku
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet...
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Honno-Ji in Flames
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Ka...
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Seventeen Ninja 2: The Great Battle
In a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create an e...
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The Bullet and the Horse
A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to...
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Chushingura
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and ...
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North Sea Chivalry
Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this ta...
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Game of Chance 2
Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman or...
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The Third Contest
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Conseque...
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Japan's Top Gangster
A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on th...
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Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and writte...
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Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, ada...
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Heaven Sent
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objec...
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Tears of Banishment
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name....
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The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Yukyo-retsuden
A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now...
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Profound Desires of the Gods
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori cla...
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Poem
The ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship between...
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Gambler's Code - Loyalty Offering
A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a re...
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The Witty Samurai
The story of a timid samurai attempting to rid his name of the stigma attached to it....
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Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku"....
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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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Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 1
Ainu chieftain Otena Kamui dies leaving a secret to his son. Years later, the grown son and his chil...
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Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 2
As the map fragments are united, conspiracies tighten around the magistrate’s clan. Storms, uprising...
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