Having had a hard time as an Obeya-haiyu (an actor playing bit-roles to establish their career and living together with other actors with similar aims) from around the age of twenty, Bando TSUMASABURO became famous in October of 1923 after being casted in the film "Senketsu no Tegata" (The Fresh Blood Handprint), produced by Shozo Maikino's Makino Film Productions with an original screenplay by Rokubei SUSUKITA.
20歳前後から大部屋俳優として苦労してきた阪東妻三郎は、1923年（大正12年）10月、牧野省三のマキノ映画製作所が製作した寿々喜多呂九平オリジナル脚本による『鮮血の手型』で名を上げた。