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Enoken's Yaji and Kita

1939

69 minutes

ComedyHistory

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.

Top Cast

Kenichi Enomoto headshot

Kenichi Enomoto

Teiichi Futamura headshot

Teiichi Futamura

Harue Wakahara headshot

Harue Wakahara

Saburo Ukita headshot

Saburo Ukita

Mitsuko Hirokawa headshot

Mitsuko Hirokawa

Ichiro Yamano headshot

Ichiro Yamano

Kanta Kisaragi headshot

Kanta Kisaragi

Minoru Takase headshot

Minoru Takase

Teiichi Yanagida headshot

Teiichi Yanagida

Naojiro Umemura headshot

Naojiro Umemura

Yōyō Kojima headshot

Yōyō Kojima

Haruko Katō headshot

Haruko Katō