Kan Yanagiya Movies

Japanese family drama.

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...

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.

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

Having left his hometown, Shinichi Sakashita was searching for an agency where his senior colleague worked, hoping to find him a job. However, the...

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...

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.

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...

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

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

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...

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 con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt.

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

The story of the hardships facing women working as maids and waitresses at a resort hotel restaurant.

Japanese drama film.