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
Daisuke Katô | Hiroshi Koizumi | Setsuko Wakayama | Hisaya Morishige | Jun Tazaki | Haruo Tanaka | Seizaburô Kawazu | Tatsuya Ishiguro | Kunitaro Sawamura | Toranosuke Ogawa | Nakajirô Tomita | Gen Shimizu | Akio Kobori | Kiyoshi Kamoda | Nobuo Chiba | Kazuo Ishii | Asami Kuji | Kenji Mori | Torazo Hirosawa | Michiko Toyoshima | Toshiko Ogura