The best Kan Yanagiya’s movies

Kan Yanagiya

Kan Yanagiya

Today we present the best Kan Yanagiya’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Kan Yanagiya’s movies.
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Stray Dog

Stray Dog
7.8/10
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
8.5/10
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

Yearning

Yearning
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/01/1964
  • Character: Mr. Kaga, foodstore owner
After a bombing raid destroys the family store and her husband, Reiko rebuilds and runs the shop out of love stopped short by destruction.

A Taxing Woman

A Taxing Woman
7.2/10
Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in effect, Rembrandt.

Children of Hiroshima

Children of Hiroshima
7.6/10
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.

Voice Without a Shadow

Voice Without a Shadow
6.6/10
  • Genre: Mystery
  • Release: 22/10/1958
  • Character: Suzumoto
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect…

Eight Hours of Terror

Eight Hours of Terror
6.7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 06/03/1957
  • Character: Salesman
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Travelling Actors

Travelling Actors
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 18/12/1940
  • Character: Senpei Nakamura - the Hindlegs
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/01/1950
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 10/05/1960
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

Dorodarake no seishun

Dorodarake no seishun
  • Release: 21/09/1954
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew indignantly at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi.

The Giant

The Giant
7.1/10
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be found by a monk. The criminal decides to turn a new leaf based on their conversation and goes on to become a town's mayor. He hears news of a mistaken arrest and identity. The revelation of truth is the start of a series of miseries.

Destroyer Yukikaze

Destroyer Yukikaze
Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.

Frankie the Milkman

Frankie the Milkman
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/12/1956
  • Character: Daisuke Aoki
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 distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/01/1961
  • Character: Kajimu
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.

Moment of Terror

Moment of Terror
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/04/1966
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.

Duel in the Sun

Duel in the Sun
  • Release: 07/03/1950
  • Character: Journalist
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

The Skin of the South

The Skin of the South
7.4/10
  • Release: 28/02/1952
  • Character: Sanpei
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course.

Hazardous Graduation

Hazardous Graduation
5.3/10
  • Release: 15/12/1970
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

Rabble Tactics

Rabble Tactics
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 13/07/1963
  • Character: Masuda Shobei
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 more like a boy than a girl, to join, disguised as a man.

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