Acting

Matsunosuke Fukui

Acting credits

The Thousand-Stitch Belt poster
NR

A boatman's relationships with his mother and fiancee are disrupted when he is conscripted to fight in China.

The Thousand-Stitch Belt

1937

No artwork available
NR

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

Phantom Castle

1940

Singing Lovebirds poster
6.3

An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable daughter to a suitor she doesn't love.

Singing Lovebirds

1939

No artwork available
9.0

Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.

Jiraiya

1937

Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū poster
NR

The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the coveted Shinshu Mountain map targeted by the phantom gang, but loses the key to unlocking it. The one who picks up the key is Osumi, a female courier. (Existing version. Please excuse any deterioration in image quality due to original conditions.)

Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū

1940

Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio poster
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Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the eerie triple-faced deity of the Sennjogadake Rocks - the lord of the phantom castle, scheming to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate that destroyed his lord. Sent by the shogunate to infiltrate Hida, Kigurumi Tsukinosuke's cover is blown... (Existing version. Please excuse any deterioration in image quality due to original conditions.)

Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio

1940

Kurama Tengu poster
6.0

Directed by Daisuke Itô.

Kurama Tengu

1942

Maboroshijō kaiketsu-hen kizoji no gaika poster
NR

Tsukinosuke narrowly misses capturing the lord of the phantom castle by a hair's breadth. The mountain map was with Kirisaku at the Ashiwara residence, belonging to the phantom gang. Tsukinosuke heads to the Ashiwara residence to rescue Kirisaku, but in the meantime, the Matsudaira residence is attacked by the phantom gang... (Existing version. Please excuse any deterioration in image quality due to original conditions.)

Maboroshijō kaiketsu-hen kizoji no gaika

1940

No artwork available
NR

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

Iki na fûraibô

1946

Kaikyō no fūunji poster
NR

A state-sponsored film centered on Shinsaku Takasugi’s theories on coastal defense.

Kaikyō no fūunji

1943

María Luz Incident: Slave Ship poster
NR

A film adaptation of the María Luz Incident from the early Meiji period that sparked widespread public debate.

María Luz Incident: Slave Ship

1943