Kan Yanagiya Movies

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

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

The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba...

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...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

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...

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

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

A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named...

The Human Condition follows the journey of the well-intentioned, yet naïve Kaji who transitions from being a labor camp supervisor to an...

Gekko Kamen faces off against Satan's Claw, who is after the treasure of the Kingdom of Baradai.

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

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...