Kan Yanagiya Movies

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream...

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 novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

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

1960 Toei war movie.

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his...

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

The story of the hardships facing women working as maids and waitresses at a resort hotel restaurant.

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

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

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

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

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Japanese drama film.

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

The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima