Enoken Enters the Ring

Enoken's The Magician

1934

Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, then goons, to keep Enoken from performing his grand show!

Enoken's The Magician

1934

Enoken's Kondo Isami

1935

Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.

Enoken's Kondo Isami

1935

Enoken's Donguri Tonbei

1936

Enoken plays a frog-oil-hawking conman whose claims to martial prowess land him in hot water with the local samurai gentry - but not before he falls in love with exactly the wrong girl. Another musical comedy period film quick on the heels of the earlier Kondo Isami.

Enoken's Donguri Tonbei

1936

Enoken’s Ten Millions

1936

Enoken plays a cloistered rich kid whose father hires a disreputable tutor to teach him how to really be a millionaire: by drunken debauchery, women, and song.

Enoken’s Ten Millions

1936

Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel

1936

The story picks up from Part 1 as Enoken's young scion forsakes his wealth and takes a department store job – in drag and sometimes blackface – to prove to the girl of his dreams that he be a hard-working, serious man.

Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel

1936

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way

6.0

1937

A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat and mouse moves across the countryside in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way

1937

6.0

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait

6.0

1937

1930s Japanese comedy.

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait

1937

6.0

Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke

1937

Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - in war or in love.

Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke

1937

Enoken's Hokaibo

1938

An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder.

Enoken's Hokaibo

1938

Enoken’s Shrewd Period

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Enoken’s Shrewd Period

1939

Enoken's Kurama Tengu

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's incredible climax, when Enoken fends off dozens of men attacking with ladders and handcarts, brings to mind a slightly less dextrous Jackie Chan.

Enoken's Kurama Tengu

1939

Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity Enoken takes to farcical extremes.

Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu

1939

Enoken's Yaji and Kita

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.

Enoken's Yaji and Kita

1939

Enoken's Cropped Hair

1940

Enoken's pickpocket Kinta (returned from the Chakkiri Kinta movies) finds some unexpected trouble: a stolen diamond necklace he just can't seem to get rid of!

Enoken's Cropped Hair

1940

Enoken's Bow-Wow General

1940

Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Enoken's Bow-Wow General

1940

Enoken's Home Run King

1948

Postwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team, with many of its star players "acting" as themselves – who, despite his utter lack of athletic abilities, becomes embroiled in their successes, and their personal lives. Will Enoken help the Giants take the pennant?

Enoken's Home Run King

1948

Enoken's Singing Detective Story

1948

A modern take on history with songs and comedy presented by Enoken (as Gonza), Fujiyama (as Sukeju), and Kasagi (Gonza’s wife Osaki).

Enoken's Singing Detective Story

1948

Enoken’s Boxing Generation

1949

Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business.

Enoken’s Boxing Generation

1949

Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC, as the costumed and grotesquely made-up "demon emperor" Johannes Krauser II. Although he hates the role and the things he has to do as a member of the band, he has a definite talent for it.

Detroit Metal City

2008

6.4

Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2

6.2

2013

A strange virus turns 90% of the world population into Lust eating Zombies. However, in Akihabara, Japan, some males were found to be uninfected. These men team up with the Zombies to go after the flesh and blood of surviving young women to fill their lust. The women survivors must fight to survive in an apocalyptic Japan.

Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2

2013

6.2

Ranma 1/2: Team Ranma vs. the Legendary Phoenix

7.7

1994

Kuno purchases a strange egg, believing that the mysterious powers of the legendary Phoenix will help him defeat Ranma. But when the egg hatches on his head, the bird goes out of control and wreaks havoc all over Tokyo. Ranma and the gang must use any means necessary to get the Phoenix to leave Kuno's head and fly away.

Ranma 1/2: Team Ranma vs. the Legendary Phoenix

1994

7.7

Crayon Shin-chan: Action Mask vs. Leotard Devil

7.0

1993

Everyone's favorite TV superhero Action Mask shows up in Kasukabe, and he's trying to get something from Shin-chan -- but what could it be?

Crayon Shin-chan: Action Mask vs. Leotard Devil

1993

7.0

Babes

5.9

2024

After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and beyond.

Babes

2024

5.9

...All the Marbles

6.1

1981

A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.

...All the Marbles

1981

6.1

Girls und Panzer der Film

7.0

2015

When the Ministry of Education goes back on its promise to keep Ooarai Girls Academy open, the task of saving the five-mile-long Academy Ship from the wreckers falls to Miho and her barely-seasoned tankery team. However, things go off track almost immediately. While the Oorai tank crew may have won the high school tournament, they’re now facing a larger and more experienced university team, and if they fail, their armored vehicles will be forfeit! Will they be swapping their tanks for the memories? It’s possible, but winning a tank battle is all about tactics and teamwork, and the fledgling Ooarai students have more friends and allies than anyone suspects.

Girls und Panzer der Film

2015

7.0

City Hunter: .357 Magnum

6.4

1989

A beautiful pianist comes to Tokyo for a charity concert - and City Hunter is there. But music isn't his forte. He wants lessons in the language of love. Desperation is the word as bodies start dropping. A foreign dignitary is assassinated in cold blood. Secret agents scour the streets for a missing microchip. And diplomatic infighting swirls around the upcoming concert until Nina the pianist and her grandfather Klaus are kidnapped. A maelstrom of exploding grenades, the rumble of Falcon's jeep, and the tinkling of the ivories all set the stage for City Hunter: . 357 Magnum. The show must go on!

City Hunter: .357 Magnum

1989

6.4

Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - The Golden Seal

7.4

1993

While vacationing, Koenma is kidnapped by a pair of demons known as Koashura and Garuga, who demand the possession of Lord Enma's coveted "Golden Seal." Botan finds Yusuke Urameshi and Kazuma Kuwabara on their summer vacation as well, and asks for their assistance in Koenma's rescue.

Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie - The Golden Seal

1993

7.4

Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly

8.1

2000

Dave Chappelle returns for a stand-up to D.C. and riffs on politics, police, race relations, drugs, Sesame Street and more.

Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly

2000

8.1

City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes

6.4

2019

Ryo Saeba works the streets of Tokyo as the City Hunter. He's a "sweeper" and with his sidekick Kaori Makimura, he keeps the city clean. People hire the City Hunter to solve their dangerous problems, which he does with a Colt Python. When Ryo's not working on a case, he's working on getting the ladies, and Kaori must keep him in check with her trusty 10 kg hammer.

City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes

2019

6.4

Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh

7.5

2010