Chuji's Travel Diary: The Chuji Patrol Episode (movie)
忠次旅日記 忠次御用篇- User score: 7.3
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Daisuke Itō
- Production companies: Nikkatsu Corporation
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 12/27/1927
- Run time: 107 min.
Movie description
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.
