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.
大河内傳次郎
as Chuji Kunisada
Hideo Nakamura
as
Kichiji Nakamura
as
Seinosuke Sakamoto
as
Motoharu Isokawa
as
澤蘭子
as
山室耕
as
Nobuko Akitsuki
as
尾上華丈
as
Koka Nakamura
as
Hyakunosuke Ichikawa
as
Katsutaro Asami
as
