Kan Yanagiya Movies

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He...

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...

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

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

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...

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...

1960 Toei war movie.

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

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