Eijirō Yanagi Movies

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as...

The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective drama in which two newspaper reporters...

Film about the 2-26 Incident.

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

The Purple-Hooded Man, Japan's version of Robin Hood, tries to uncover a corruption scandal in Edo era Japan.

1958 Japanese movie

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.