Eijirō Yanagi Movies

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

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...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Sinza who is secretly the well known "Sea Glow Burglar", gives to the poor the money he takes from the bad lords and greedy merchants, who live just...

Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

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

One of the earliest of sukeban / girl boss type eiga

During the era of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one night a carver named Fujijiro was murdered. Immediately launching an investigation, Denhichi, accompanied by...

Japanese comedy film.

A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there.

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

Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden...

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime...

Japanese comedy film.