Chuji's Travel Diary: The Chuji Patrol Episode (1927)
忠次旅日記 忠次御用篇
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.
- Date of release
- 1927-12-27
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Daisuke Itō
- Collection
- Chuji Trilogy
Casting
- Denjirō Ōkōchi — Chuji Kunisada
- Hideo Nakamura
- Kichiji Nakamura
- Seinosuke Sakamoto
- Motoharu Isokawa
- Ranko Sawa
- Ko Yamamuro
- Nobuko Akitsuki
- Kajō Onoe
- Koka Nakamura
- Hyakunosuke Ichikawa
- Katsutaro Asami
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