Matsunosuke Onoe

  • Kôkichi Tsukiyama – Shibukawa Bangorô (1922)

    1921-1930AsianJapanKôkichi TsukiyamaSilent

    A film on the life of Bangorō Shibukawa, the founder of the Shibukawa-ryū school of jūjutsu. To paraphrase Tadao Satō’s blurb on the back cover of the video, this is an important film for three reasons.
    1. It is an almost perfectly well preserved copy of one of only few full-length movies still available of the first superstar in Japanese cinema history, the very famous Onoe Matsunosuke.Read More »

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