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....

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

Part one of The Masterless 47....

1962 Japanese movie...

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1962 Japanese movie...

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....

An Ishiro Honda film....

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...

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

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

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 sto...

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

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

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

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