Eijirō Yanagi Movies

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

A contemporary comedy.

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

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

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

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

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

In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive...

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and...

In a provincial Japanese town, an entrepreneurial sanitation collector is drawn into the world of local politics, only to discover that the...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

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

American Sergeant falls in love with a Japanese woman.

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.