Kan Yanagiya Movies

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

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

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...

Japanese drama film.

A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s season and his family’s...

1961 Japanese movie

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

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

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...

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the...

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...

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...

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar hostesses and a beer company heiress,...

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...

1958 Toei movie.

A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt.

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