Keinosuke Tôyama

Movies3

• Movie

  ActionMystery

  The movie begins with a mysterious murder and Umon Kondo, a Doshin, so called drag-ass Umon, who dallies away lying sprawled all day long, launches an investigation.

  Umon's First Exploit

  右門一番手柄 南蛮幽霊

  1929

• Movie5.6

  ActionMystery

  An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji kidan (The Samurai Detective, aka The Detective Records of Umon, aka Detective Umon Diary: Exploit Number Six, 1930). Umon on his shining white horse stops a conspiracy against the Shogun. Umon was played by Kanjuro Arashi in this early film, & long after in the post-Occupation jidaigeki revival he reprised the role in Kajiro Yamamoto's Muttsuri Umon torimonocho (1955), helping to launch the renewed interest in such films.

  Detective Umon's Diary, Story No. 6

  右門捕物帖・六番手柄　仁念寺奇談

  1930 · 5 votes

• Movie

  Iso no Genta accidentally kills a magistrate and becomes a yakuza. Considered a lost film.

  Iso-no-genta's Sword

  磯の源太 抱寝の長脇差

  1932