is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with ''

benshi were Japanese performers who provided live narration for silent films (both Japanese films and Western films). ''Benshi'' are sometimes called or . Role The earliest films available for public display were produced by Western studios, portraying ...

'' accompaniment directed by Kazuo Mori. It is a cheerful period drama, sprinkled with comical scenes and tells the story of a loyal and handsome

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

servant who fights to help his older brother marry the woman he loves. The star of this film

Utaemon Ichikawa was a Japanese film actor famous for starring roles in jidaigeki from the 1920s to the 1960s. Trained in kabuki from childhood, he made his film debut in 1925 at Makino Film Productions under Shōzō Makino. Quickly gaining popularity, he follow ...

gained enormous popularity for his portrayal of a cheerful and chivalrous man.

External links

''Nishikie Edosugata Hatamoto to Machiyakko'' on Internet Movie Database
1939 films Japanese silent films Japanese black-and-white films Japanese drama films 1939 drama films Silent drama films {{1930s-Japan-film-stub