Kingorō Yanagiya

Acting

Kingorō Yanagiya

Born — Died

1901-02-28 — 1972-10-22

Place of birth

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 16 titles

Chûshingura poster
7.1

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Chûshingura

1962

Tōkyō sanosa musume poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Tōkyō sanosa musume

1962

Funny Escape to Tokkaido poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Funny Escape to Tokkaido

1960

Hotsprings Holiday poster
10.0

Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town and, rejected by the innkeeper's daughter, they leave town as friends.

Hotsprings Holiday

1968

The Happicoat Comedian poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Happicoat Comedian

1960

Sing, Young People! poster
6.2

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Sing, Young People!

1963

Heavenly Comic Story of a Gentleman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Heavenly Comic Story of a Gentleman

1960

Biting Young Master poster
NR

Modern comedy.

Biting Young Master

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Young Salesman: Sanshiro Sebiro

1960

Shin kitsune to tanuki poster
7.0

1962 Japanese movie

Shin kitsune to tanuki

1962

Crazy Operation: First Move poster
10.0

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another. But as it turns out, their next dispute will be at a global scale.

Crazy Operation: First Move

1963

Aloha 3 Gents poster
8.0

As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By the time they resume business, the target property is lost to a rival—forcing an abrupt return to Japan with both deals and relationships unresolved.

Aloha 3 Gents

1963

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant poster
8.0

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant

1962

No artwork available
9.0

Japanese comedy film.

誰よりも金を愛す

1961

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox poster
8.0

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox

1961

Sazae-san's Baby poster
9.0

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Sazae-san's Baby

1960

1950s · 41 titles

Kaette kita yūrei poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kaette kita yūrei

1955

Otora-san's Business is Booming poster
NR

The sixth and final "Otora-san" feature.

Otora-san's Business is Booming

1958

Otora-san's Ghostly Rascals poster
NR

The fourth "Otora-san" feature.

Otora-san's Ghostly Rascals

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Masurao Dispatchers Men's Group: Especially If You're a Man

1957

The Affair 55 Years Later poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Affair 55 Years Later

1956

Stubborn Father and Musical Daughter poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stubborn Father and Musical Daughter

1957

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kingoro's Pure Diary: Comic Yakuza Story

1957

Otora-san poster
NR

The first of six "Otora-san" features.

Otora-san

1957

Stubborn Father and Stupid Son poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stubborn Father and Stupid Son

1957

Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife poster
NR

Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank him for the newlyweds, but Masuo has been told by Managing Director Hanamura to go on a business trip to Kansai. Before long, Masuo contacted Sazae to come to Osaka.

Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife

1959

Work Hard, Happy Girls! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Work Hard, Happy Girls!

1959

Kingoro's Pure Diary: A Company President's First Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kingoro's Pure Diary: A Company President's First Love

1957

Radioactivity Plays the Game: Crafty Gentleman Sequel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Radioactivity Plays the Game: Crafty Gentleman Sequel

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Big Laugh Festival of the Edo-ites

1959

The More-You-Fall-In-Love Story poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The More-You-Fall-In-Love Story

1956

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born

1956

Tactics of Love poster
NR

1955 Japanese movie

Tactics of Love

1955

Masurao Dispatchers Men's Group: Take Your Best Shot poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Masurao Dispatchers Men's Group: Take Your Best Shot

1957

Otora-san's Legal Holiday poster
NR

The fifth "Otora-san" feature.

Otora-san's Legal Holiday

1958

Newlywed of the First Section poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Newlywed of the First Section

1956

Oboe on the Hill poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oboe on the Hill

1958

An Edoite Judge poster
NR

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

An Edoite Judge

1953

Diary of a Young Couple in Trouble poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Diary of a Young Couple in Trouble

1955

No artwork available
NR

Japanese musical.

A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival

1954

Violent Ishimatsu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Violent Ishimatsu

1959

Husband Beware! poster
NR

Based on a radio drama.

Husband Beware!

1954

Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: The Night Before His Daughter's Wedding Day poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: The Night Before His Daughter's Wedding Day

1958

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka's Big Hit poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka's Big Hit

1956

Musume hatsukoi yatton-bushi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Musume hatsukoi yatton-bushi

1952

The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl

1956

Hanayome hanamuko chanbara bushi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hanayome hanamuko chanbara bushi

1952

Mitsurin no mehyō poster
NR

A film filled with eroticism and humor, set in the Northern Alps where a naked woman has appeared, as depicted in the article “Naked Woman Appears in the Jungle,” and featuring a showman and a newspaper reporter.

Mitsurin no mehyō

1950

Big Edo's 1,000 Ryo Festival poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Big Edo's 1,000 Ryo Festival

1958

Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: There are Five Men and Seven Women in the Family poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Father is a Soft-Hearted Person: There are Five Men and Seven Women in the Family

1958

Otora-san at His Best poster
NR

The third "Otora-san" feature.

Otora-san at His Best

1958

Teenage Sazae poster
10.0

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

Teenage Sazae

1957

Sunset Over Mount Fuji poster
NR

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

Sunset Over Mount Fuji

1952

Song for a Bride poster
10.0

An Ishiro Honda film.

Song for a Bride

1958

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku poster
8.0

1958 Japanese movie

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958

No artwork available
NR

Based on the story "Oie han to Nao don" by Naoshi Tachi.

The Well-Raised Girl and the Head Clerk

1956

A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival poster
NR

Hachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had even been barred from entering the Akasaiya shop where he worked. However, thanks to the intervention of the landlord he was fortunately allowed back in, and Oka, the landlord’s maid who had long harbored feelings for Hachigoro, sent him a celebratory kimono as a gift.

A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival

1954

Behind the camera