Kan Yanagiya
Birthday: 1911-11-08
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Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Turbid Youth
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, ...
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A Woman's Life
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son....
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...
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Police Precinct Part 14
An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, ...
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Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Toka...
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Sasaki Kojiro
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Ota...
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The Abandoned Swords
Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealin...
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The Man Who Waited
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacatio...
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Yearning
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years ...
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Travelling Actors
This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan....
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Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld....
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Detective
The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal,...
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Escape at Dawn
Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated wi...
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The Blue Pearl
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; liter...
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Frankie the Milkman
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to T...
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Pursuit At Dawn
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51)...
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Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded...
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Lord Mito: All Star Version
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the ...
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Dispersed Clouds
Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of...
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Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil
The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s....
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant bus...
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With Songs in My Heart
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of...
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The Angry Street
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown ...
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Kingorô no omawari-san
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone....
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Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters
Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film....
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Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan
Gekko Kamen faces off against Satan's Claw, who is after the treasure of the Kingdom of Baradai....
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The Man from Planet Alpha
A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Cr...
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Eight Hours of Terror
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers....
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Mother Never Dies
The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son....
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Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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The Wolves
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their w...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....
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Voice Without a Shadow
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to h...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take ...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved ...
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is th...
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The Black Current
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a ...
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Hazardous Graduation
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tab...
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The Skin of the South
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable...
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The Naked Sun
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-fu...
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Moment of Terror
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the drive...
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Rabble Tactics
The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to ke...
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Shanghai Landing Party
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an und...
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Dancing Sisters
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a smal...
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Nippon no obaachan
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast abo...
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A Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go...
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The White Orchid
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...
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Destroyer Yukikaze
Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook'...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are ...
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The Giant
Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Mi...
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Rainbow Hill
A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop cle...
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Beautiful Departure
A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the ...
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Crazy Operation: First Move
After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various f...
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Shiroi natsu
Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while ...
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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The ...
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The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history...
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to...
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The White Rose of Hong Kong
Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong ...
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The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5....
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The Young Boss is Third Generation
A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race whi...
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A Young Boss Tries Really Hard
A college football star gets caught in a scandal involving a geisha teacher, endangering his team’s ...
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Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundre...
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Life's Simple Pleasures
A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays th...
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Salaryman Idea Book: Man of Worrisome Episodes
A university graduate determined to become a fishmonger defies his mother's wishes, tangles with bar...
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Ant Hell War
The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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A Human Promise
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story ...
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I'll Be Deceived
A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt....
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