Five Men in a Circus (1935)
A five member circus runs into problems while touring rural Japan.
Top billed cast
Heihachirō ŌkawaKokichi
Hiroshi UrukiTorakichi
Kamatari FujiwaraTadakichi- Riki MiyagawaRokuta
- Kō MihashiSeiroku
Sadao MaruyamaChief Travelling Circus- Koji KagaKunio, the acrobat
- Kajiya MorinoMatsumoto the Manager
Masako TsutsumiChiyoko- Ryuko UmezonoSumiko
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