Kingoro Yanagiya
Nascimento : 1901-02-28, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Morte : 1972-10-22
A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakagami.
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 more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town and, rejected by the innkeeper's daughter, they leave town as friends.
Ken's father
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, in this madcap rock musical adventure!
Ryokai
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 like a boy than a girl, to join, disguised as a man.
Dining hall proprietor
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.
Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda
The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless (becoming ronin) after their daimyo (feudal lord) was forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kōzuke no suke. The ronin avenged their master's honor after patiently waiting and planning for over a year to kill Kira. In turn, the ronin were themselves forced to commit seppuku for committing the crime of murder.
Comedy movie
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
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 directed by Kunio Watanabe. A group of samurai rushed into the Sakura Opera Troupe in the mountain village, chasing a young woman named Chiyohime who was promoting dancing around Edo Asakusa area. Suri Nao and Kinshiro Toyama was there and saved her. Meanwhile, the samurai asked the acquaintance Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi to find her. Jirokichi visited Kinshiro 's house, and found her there…
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
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 those around her.
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
The second Tora-San feature.
An Ishiro Honda film.
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.
Mito Komon (Mitsukuni Tokugawa)
Togashi no Saemon
Japanese comedy film.
1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.
Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"
Japanese musical.
Chôbei
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Daigoro
Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.
Ichiryusai Torahachi
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.
A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
Denji Okabiki
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa
1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.
Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.
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 as friend, "Sachio-san"...
A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
Keishirô Murakami
Period film about the legendary detective Umon
Executive Producer
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
Directed by Akira Nobuchi
Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou
A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.
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 junk hunt in the neighborhood, collecting garbages and scraps and selling them to junkmen to make profit.
Lecturer Saigozan Kinyanagi
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 or "Japan's Fine Weather Reel") parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war.
