Enoken's Yaji and Kita (1939)

Name: Enoken's Yaji and Kita
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Genre: Comedy, History
Released: 1939-12-29
Duration: 69 min
Cast: Kenichi Enomoto, Teiichi Futamura, Harue Wakahara, Saburo Ukita, Mitsuko Hirokawa

69 min · Japan · Dir. Nobuo Nakagawa

Comedy History 1939 movies

Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.