Kan Yanagiya Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

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

The story of a young lady who brightens up the neighborhood.

The story of the hardships facing women working as maids and waitresses at a resort hotel restaurant.

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

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

The masked hero 'Moon Light Mask' battles the villainous 'Skull Mask' and his numerous masked henchmen who are trying to steal the secrets of the...

Tonii is a salesman at a mortgage company, and although he is in a romantic relationship with Haruko, a typist at the company, they cannot get...

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...

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...

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

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.