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.
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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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