Kan Yanagiya Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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.

Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

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...

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural...

The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima