Kingorō Yanagiya Movies

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

Japanese comedy film.

1940 Japanese movie

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

Japanese comedy film.

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

Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda

1962 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...

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

Japanese comedy film.

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

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

Japanese comedy film.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

The second Tora-San feature.

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

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

Japanese comedy film.