Enoken’s Kinta the Pickpocket

Comedy · 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.

Starring

Kôichi Iwashita, Kajirō Yamamoto, Kenichi Enomoto, Kajirō Yamamoto, Zeko Nakamura, Teiichi Futamura, Shigekazu Kurihara, Sadaichi Yanagida, Tai Ogiwara

Director

Kajirō Yamamoto