Kan Yanagiya Movies

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the...

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

The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are...

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

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

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

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

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

Japanese drama film.

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

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.