Enoken Collection

Part 5 · Sep 1, 1936

Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel

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.

Part 6 · Jul 11, 1937

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

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.

Part 7 · Aug 1, 1937

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

1930s Japanese comedy.

Part 8 · Dec 31, 1937

Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke

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

Part 9 · Jun 21, 1938

Enoken's Hokaibo

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

Part 10 · Jan 11, 1939

Enoken’s Shrewd Period

Part 11 · May 21, 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.

Part 12 · Aug 10, 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.

Part 13 · Dec 29, 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.

Part 14 · Mar 27, 1940

Enoken's Cropped Hair

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!

Part 15 · May 15, 1940

Enoken Enters the Ring

To become a great wrestler, the strongest of the village's young men leaves his fiancée to join a sumo stable in Edo.

Part 16 · Jul 16, 1940

Enoken's Bow-Wow General

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

Part 17 · Sep 7, 1948

Enoken's Home Run King

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?

Part 18 · Dec 31, 1948

Enoken's Singing Detective Story

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

Part 19 · Feb 8, 1949

Enoken’s Boxing Generation

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