Películas de Kingorō Yanagiya

Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a ghost train has been coming there at midnight. And...

Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the...

Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...

Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank...

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

Princess Oboro, the queen of the Tanuki palace and stubborn at heart, falls in love with coffeehouse worker Kurotaro at first sight.

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952)

Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.

1958 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of “King Lear” and “Christmas Carol”. A neighborhood loan shark...

Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a...

1962 Japanese movie

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in Yokohama's Chinatown.

Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

This is the only surviving “Mito Komon Manyu-ki” film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's...

Comedy movie

Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda

1940 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

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

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese musical.

Japanese comedy film.

Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

Japanese comedy film.

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

The story of Kanesuke and Entaro who are master elephant trainers in charge of two elephants, Taro and Hanako at the Metropolitan Zoo.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Japanese comedy film.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Japanese comedy film.

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

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 film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

The Spiders, a Japanese pop group, in their first starring role, walk from Yokohama to Tokyo, to prove their love for a girl who told them "the...

An Ishiro Honda film.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

An entertainment movie featuring familiar faces of Toyama no Kin-san, Nezumi Kozo, Yaji Kita, and others who traveled around the Tokaido. Written and...

The second Tora-San feature.

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"