Kingorō Yanagiya

Konto 55: Grandson of a Ninja (1969)

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami. ...

Hotsprings Holiday (1968)

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 hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces ...

The Spiders: The Reckless Operation (1967)

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 person who can overcome any obstacle will be my lover"! Neither traffic, buildings, nor the police can stop them ...

Crazy Cats Go to Hong Kong (1963)

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

Rabble Tactics (1963)

The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are recruited in groups of fifteen. In Yaju's village, there are only twelve men, so they press Oto, who looks more ...

Crazy Operation: First Move (1963)

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another. But as it turns out, their next dispute will be at a global s ...

Sing, Young People! (1963)

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star. ...

Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady (1962)

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

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant (1962)

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown. ...

Chûshingura (1962)

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor. ...

Shin kitsune to tanuki (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Tōkyō sanosa musume (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen (1962)

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn. ...

Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū (1962)

Comedy movie ...

Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Tenth Game of New Salarymen: Salaryman Ittoru (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox (1961)

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, ...

Sararīman yajikita dōchū (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

Watashi wa uso wa mōshimasen (1961)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Sazae-san Plays Cupid (1961)

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic. ...

The Masterless 47 – Part II (1961)

The eighth entry in the President series. ...

I Love Money More Than Anybody (1961)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Sazae And Aunt Apron (1960)

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip ...

The Masterless 47 (1960)

Part one of The Masterless 47. ...

Sazae-san's Baby (1960)

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. ...

Kingorō no kaigun taishô (1959)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife (1959)

Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank him for the newlyweds, but Masuo has been told by Managing Director Hanamura to go on a business trip to Kan ...

Sazae-san's Newlywed Family (1959)

Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the newlywed life that started at the Isono family was a disaster. At the Isono family, where bonito and Wakame prank ...

Sazae-san's Marriage (1959)

Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and eventually heads for Nikko, a travel destination. Sazae is once again overwhelmed by the sight of the newly ...

Dai Abare Tokaido (1958)

An entertainment movie featuring familiar faces of Toyama no Kin-san, Nezumi Kozo, Yaji Kita, and others who traveled around the Tokaido. Written and directed by Kunio Watanabe. A group of samurai rushed into the Sakura Opera Troupe in the mountain villag ...

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku (1958)

1958 Japanese movie ...

One Step to Happiness (1958)

The Naked General (1958)

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities. ...

With Songs in My Heart (1958)

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of tho ...

Holiday in Japan (1958)

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding. ...

Tora-san's Home Run (1958)

The second Tora-San feature. ...

Song for a Bride (1958)

An Ishiro Honda film. ...

Tenten Musume (1956)

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts. ...

Sazae-san (1956)

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series. ...

President Rai of Kingoro (1956)

A humorous salaryman comedy about the president of a beer company who is said to be President Rai. The third work after the Kingoro's Soldier and the "Kingoro's Officer". The original work is Kuni Sasaki, the adaptation is Yasunori Kawauchi of "The Officer ...

Kingorō no omawari-san (1956)

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

Kingoro's Soldier (1956)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Runaway Bride (1956)

Masura o hashutsu fukai (1956)

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

A Doting Parent’s Lullaby (1955)

Nonki saiban (1955)

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crim ...

Diary of the First Incredible Laughing Trip (1955)

The Playful Fox and the Thousand Cherry Trees (1954)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Rikidozan no tetsuwan kyojin (1954)

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan. ...

Shigemori Goes To Tokyo (1954)

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance" ...

A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival (1954)

Japanese musical. ...

Princess Finds Her Prince (1953)

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker (1953)

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

Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage (1953)

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

An Edoite Judge (1953)

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo ...

Sunset Over Mount Fuji (1952)

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi ...

Geisha Waltz (1952)

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. ...

Today is Payday (1952)

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa ...

Shimizu no Jirocho den (1952)

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho. ...

Journey to the West 2: The Great Rampage of Son Goku (1952)

Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952) ...

Dimple of Tokyo (1952)

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family ...

Love's Zephir Along the Tokaido (1952)

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa ...

A Girl at Eighteen: Surprised Heaven (1952)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Big Hit Pachinko Girl (1952)

Set in a bustling 1950s parlor, a beautiful counter clerk falls for a wealthy businessman's son, only to have their romance derailed by a ruthless loan shark and a mounting family debt. As the parlor faces ruin, the narrative weaves through slapstick antic ...

Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth (1952)

Period film about the legendary detective Umon ...

Under the Blossoming Peach (1951)

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief happiness together, but eventually the time comes to say goodbye. The portrayal of the children and the atmos ...

Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf (1951)

Amakara chindōchū (1950)

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance, he apprehends a criminal and reconnects with his former colleague, Sakamoto, leading him to become a secur ...

The Elephant Who Waited (1949)

The story of Kanesuke and Entaro who are master elephant trainers in charge of two elephants, Taro and Hanako at the Metropolitan Zoo. ...

Akireta musumetachi (1949)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Ghost Train (1949)

Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a ghost train has been coming there at midnight. And it is said that anyone who sees the train will die. ...... A film adaptation of a popular radio drama. ...

Hanakurabe tanuki-den (1949)

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

Shachō to onna tenin (1948)

Nonkina tosan (1946)

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou ...

This Happy Life (1944)

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

The Splendid Gold Mine (1941)

Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu (1939)

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

The Old Man of the Propeller (1939)

The Old Man of the Propeller can be seen as a comedic amalgam of "King Lear" and "Christmas Carol". A neighborhood loan shark is hounded by his relatives expecting big inheritance. But he is not giving any favor to anyone. His only joy of life is to go on ...

Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip (1938)

This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as "Adrift Tour Memoir" or literally "Mito Komon's Pleasure Trip" is an 80-minute compilation of the first (東海道の巻 or "Tokaido no maki") and second (日本晴れの巻 ...

Amakara chindōchū (1950)

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance, he apprehends a criminal and reconnects with his former colleague, Sakamoto, leading him to become a secur ...