Detective Umon's Diary, Story No. 6 (movie)
右門捕物帖・六番手柄 仁念寺奇談- User score: 5.2
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Kumahiko Nishina
- Production companies: Tôa Kinema
- Genre: Action, Mystery
- Release date: 5/29/1930
- Run time: 66 min.
Movie description
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.
