Kan Yanagiya Movies

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

1960 Toei war movie.

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

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,...

1958 Toei movie

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

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

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.

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

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...

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

Based on the story "Tokyo Station" by Tsunehiko Sagawa.

1958 Toei movie.

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.