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Enoken's Yaji and Kita (1939)

Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Overview

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.

Length 69 minutes

Actors

Kenichi Enomoto | Teiichi Futamura | Harue Wakahara | Saburo Ukita | Mitsuko Hirokawa | Ichiro Yamano | Kanta Kisaragi | Minoru Takase | Teiichi Yanagida | Naojiro Umemura | Yôyô Kojima | Haruko Kato