Kanjūrō Arashi
Kanjūrō Arashi was a Japanese film actor. His nickname was "Arakan." He is famous for playing the role of Kurama Tengu series. He entered the film industry in 1927 and came to fame playing Kurama Tengu, a character in the Bakumatsu era created by Jirō Osaragi in his novels. In the 1950s he portrayed the Emperor Meiji in several hit films and appeared in yakuza films in the 1960s. He won Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actor award for his role in The Profound Desire of the Gods.
Movies (35)
- Female Yakuza Tale (1973)
- Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)
- Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
- A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
- Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game (1969)
- Modern Lady Gambler (1972)
- Dynamite Don-Don (1978)
- 13 Assassins (1963)
- Poem (1972)
- The Executioner II: Karate Inferno (1974)
- By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him (1966)
- Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 (1965)
- Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko (1965)
- Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony (1969)
- The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13 (1972)
- The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959)
- Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
- The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang (1972)
- The Fort of Death (1969)
- Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 (1965)
- Japan's Top Gangster (1973)
- Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return (1970)
- Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You (1971)
- Jigoku (1960)
- Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido (1967)
- Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War (1958)
- Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger (1959)
- Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country (1966)
- Tears of Banishment (1967)
- Kanto Street Peddlers (1969)