Torazo Hirosawa Movies

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato.

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

The rise of the famed gambler.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

1957 Japanese movie

Hibari Misora musical.

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru.

This is a paradise of dream and illusion, a country of Raccoon Dogs. The Bat Tribe lives in a neighboring country took a young prince of Raccoon Dogs...