Kan Yanagiya Movies

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

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...

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

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...

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...

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...

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

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

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

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

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...

1960 Toei war movie.

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

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

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

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.

Japanese drama film.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.