Kan Yanagiya Movies

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 story of a young lady who brightens up the neighborhood.

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

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...

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

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up...

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.

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

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

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.

1958 Japanese movie

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 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...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who...

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...