Kingorō Yanagiya Movies

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

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

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

1955 Japanese movie

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

The second Tora-San feature.

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

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

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

1961 Japanese movie

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...

Japanese comedy film.

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

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

Japanese comedy film.

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa