
27/12/1927
The Japanese equivalent of penny dreadfuls glorifying Jesse James, A Diary of Chuji’s Travels gives a unique gloss to the tale of Chuji Kunisada, the legendary bakuto (or gambler, the precursors to modern-day yakuza). One of the two remaining segments of Ito’s original four-hour trilogy, it depicts Chuji’s attempt to save the geisha Oshina, a rebellion against the rigid social structure of Edo Japan. With socialist overtones, it’s a passionate artifact of early Japanese film.

Denjirō Ōkōchi
as Chuji Kunisada

Hideo Nakamura
as

Kichiji Nakamura
as

Seinosuke Sakamoto
as

Motoharu Isokawa
as

Ranko Sawa
as

Ko Yamamuro
as

Nobuko Akitsuki
as

Kajō Onoe
as

Koka Nakamura
as

Hyakunosuke Ichikawa
as

Katsutaro Asami
as
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