Kan Yanagiya Movies

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

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

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

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

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Japanese drama film.

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The...

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

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealing the identity of the chosen successor to the...

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

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

1958 Toei movie

Japanese drama film.

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.