Enoken's Yaji and Kita (1939)

Release Date: 1939-12-29
Runtime: 1h 9min
Production Company: Toho Eiga
Production Country: Japan
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Writer: Toshio Yasumi

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.