Denjirō Ōkōchi Movies

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

Yamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. The Life of Bangaku

When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister...

A traveling gambler becomes duty-bound to the wife and child of the yakuza he had slain and desires to leave the criminal life for good. However,...

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honorable side of himself, and maybe some form of...

Underneath Himeji Castle, Miyamoto Bensuke was determined to inherit the will of his late father, Shinmen Munenori, and aimed to become a great...

Jidaigeki from 1940

The first of Chuji's Travels.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the...

Silent Japanese film.

Lost film, directed by Tomu Uchida. This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the samurai Bushido, which has become...

First part - Edo at the end of the Edo period, when the wind and clouds were rising rapidly - The people gathered at Kiba late at night are Shinnojo...

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

This happened at a post station on the Shinshu road. Takizo Hoshigoe, a wanted man who has been missing since breaking through the Oto checkpoint,...

Silent Japanese film.