Movielogr
Jirocho's Home-Coming (1953)
Directed by Masahiro Makino
Overview
The “sangokushi” films beginning with Jirocho sangokkushi: Nagurikomi kojinyama (Jirocho’s Tale of Three Provinces, 1952) were based on a novel by Genzo Murakami (1910-2006), who had films based on other of his books on Musashi Miyamoto’s adversary Sasaki Kojiro, as well as the wandering shogun Mito-kimon, & others.
Length 80 minutes
Actors
Akio Kobori | Torazo Hirosawa | Seizaburô Kawazu | Haruo Tanaka | Kazuo Ishii | Kenji Mori | Jun Tazaki | Setsuko Wakayama | Toshiko Ogura | Michiko Toyoshima | Hisaya Morishige | Daisuke Katô | Hiroshi Koizumi | Asami Kuji | Kunitaro Sawamura | Tatsuya Ishiguro | Gen Shimizu | Nobuo Chiba | Kiyoshi Kamoda | Nakajirô Tomita | Toranosuke Ogawa