Kanjūrō Arashi Movies

A thrilling period drama featuring Kondo Umon’s detective exploits.

This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear.

The first film produced by Daiei.

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

The story of a timid samurai attempting to rid his name of the stigma attached to it.

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.

The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Teppei Yamaguchi. It is part...

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...

During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not...

Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power...

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.