Movies: Kingorō Yanagiya

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

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

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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....

Part one of The Masterless 47....

An Ishiro Honda film....

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

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin....

Japanese comedy film....

1962 Japanese movie...

1962 Japanese movie...

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

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 f...

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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...

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

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

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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...