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.

• DirectorKumahiko Nishina
• Release29 May 1930
• Genre
  Action / Mystery
• Duration1h 6m
• Budget?
• Revenue?
• Rate
  

  5.2
  4 reviews
• Productions

  Tôa Kinema