Kan Yanagiya Movies

1960 Toei war movie.

The story of a young lady who brightens up the neighborhood.

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural...

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

1962 Japanese movie

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.