Kan Yanagiya Movies

Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it.

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

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

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

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

Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where personal ties and painful...

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...

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

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

Japanese drama film.

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

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the...

University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of...