Eijirō Yanagi Movies

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for seppuku at the Mizuno residence....

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

1958 Japanese movie

Chiezo Kataoka grew up as a Magician's apprentice in America and no prison can hold him!

At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi Shirakawa, Kurama Tengu was attacked by the...

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto.

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance...

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to serve the clan lord.

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their...

From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass),...