Collection
Enoken Collection
Collection of films revolving around Enoken.
Timeline
- 1Enoken's The Magician10/25/19341h 13m 0.0
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!
- 2Enoken's Kondo Isami10/11/19351h 21m 0.0
Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.
- 3Enoken's Donguri Tonbei1/31/19361h 20m 0.0
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.
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Enoken’s Ten Millions7/21/193658m 10.0Enoken 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.
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Enoken’s Ten Millions Sequel9/1/193654m 8.0The 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.
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Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way7/11/19371h 14m 8.0A 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.
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Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait8/1/19371h 1m 7.51930s Japanese comedy.
- 8Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke12/31/19371h 15m 0.0
Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - in war or in love.
- 9Enoken's Hokaibo6/21/19381h 14m 0.0
An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder.
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Enoken’s Shrewd Period1/11/19391h 16m 9.0 - 11Enoken's Kurama Tengu5/21/19391h 12m 0.0
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.
- 12Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu8/10/19391h 14m 0.0
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.
- 13Enoken's Yaji and Kita12/29/19391h 9m 0.0
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.
- 14Enoken's Cropped Hair3/27/19401h 22m 8.0
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!
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Enoken's Bow-Wow General7/16/194052m 0.0Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
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Enoken's Home Run King9/7/19481h 16m 0.0Postwar! 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?
- 18Enoken's Singing Detective Story12/31/19481h 17m 0.0
A modern take on history with songs and comedy presented by Enoken (as Gonza), Fujiyama (as Sukeju), and Kasagi (Gonza’s wife Osaki).
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Enoken’s Boxing Generation2/8/19491h 28m 0.0Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business.