Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kenichi Enomoto (October 11, 1904 – January 7, 1970) was a popular Japanese singing comedian, mostly known by his stage name Enoken. A major innovator during his heyday, Enoken's stage shows, radio appearances, and film roles were a major influence within Tokyo theatre before World War II, and was a catalyst for the revival of comedy in the postwar period. Born in Aoyama, Tokyo, the son of rice cracker shop owners, Enomoto fell under the spell of such stars of the Asakusa Opera as Taya Rikizo and Fujiwara Yoshie, and in 1922 he made his stage debut at age 18 as a chorus member of the Asakusa Kinryukan Theatre. The Great Kanto Earthquake of the following year dealt a great blow to the opera world in Tokyo, at which time Enomoto shifted to comic theatre. Playing small roles in various comedy productions, he returned to the Asakusa stage in 1929 as part of the troupe Casino Folly. The following year saw him launch his own troupe, Enoken Gekidan, which would firmly establish him as a leading figure in Tokyo theatrical circles. In 1934, he starred in the movie Enoken no Seishun Suikoden (Enoken’s Tale of Youth’s Folly), and gained national popularity. His subsequent film career saw him parody a whole parade of Japanese historical personages, including Kondo Isami and Sakamoto Ryoma, in a series of "jidai-geki" (historical dramas) and "chanbara" (samurai drama) films, including some directed by Kajirō Yamamoto, Nobuo Nakagawa and Akira Kurosawa. Enomoto became afflicted with necrosis of the right leg in the 1950s, which required amputation, curtailing his film and stage career. He did, however, make a legendary comeback at the Shinjuku Koma Theatre 1963 wearing a prosthetic leg. He died in 1970, and is entombed in Hase Temple in Nishi-Azabu, Minato, Tokyo, on whose tombstone is inscribed "The King of Comedy". Description above from the Wikipedia article Kenichi Enomoto, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 11, 1904
Deathday: January 07, 1970
Popularity:
1952-05-14
Overview: Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed photographs that her cousin had sent. When another actress falls ill she is given the role instead. Her first film is a success propelling the young actress to popularity, her own fans, money and a house. While everything looks dandy from the outside not all is well within the family however.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-14
Popularity:
1962-01-09
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-09
Popularity:
1940-07-16
Overview: Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
Genres: Drama Music Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-07-16
Popularity:
1954-10-12
Overview: Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the Meriken Circus troupe, yet he sinned by exposing a certain woman. During the screening, he realizes what he has done, and fate gives him a chance to redeem his sins.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-10-12
Popularity:
1952-04-24
Overview: Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safety.
Genres: Drama History Thriller Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-24
Popularity:
1962-04-15
Overview: The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater at the end of the year. The troupe "Kumo no Ue Dangoro" continues to tour from town to village. The small cast of the troupe includes its leader (Kenichi Enomoto), Norizo (Norihei Miki) and Taizo (Mutoshi Happa), who play female roles - they are all super actors, each of whom plays five roles. Dan Goro dreams of performing in a major theater and tries to put on a big show with a young man he meets in Shikoku named Sakai (Frankie Sakai), but...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-15
Popularity:
1955-11-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-01
Popularity:
1950-07-09
Overview: 1950 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-07-09
Popularity:
1958-11-11
Overview: 1958 Mito Kumon movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-11
Popularity:
1945-01-25
Overview: An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to entertain and amuse the national troops. Inside this rocket would be tiny performers. Once launched from the laboratory and landed amidst the Japanese troops the soldiers could enjoy the performers. The laboratory succeeds and the rocket is built. It bears the insignia, 'until the victory days.' The Japanese government began a program of shooting and disseminating propaganda and entertainment movies for its troops during World War II. It is a lost film.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-01-25
Popularity:
1946-06-27
Overview: After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-06-27
Popularity:
1950-03-26
Overview: 1950 Japanese movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-26
Popularity:
1952-07-30
Overview: Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno to borrow money from a moneylender in the amount of 13 ryo in order to save Oteru, the daughter of a merchant. However, the next day, Rokuroemon was killed in a fight by the Murakami brothers. Yasubei rushed to the scene, took revenge and became the husband of Miya, the daughter of Horibe Yahei.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-30
Popularity:
1939-01-11
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-01-11
Popularity:
1938-12-29
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-12-29
Popularity:
1945-01-11
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-01-11
Popularity:
1940-11-06
Overview: A legendary pre-war comedy operetta starring Enomoto Kenichi, Hideko Takamine and Li Xianglan. The Sanzo Ikkou continues its westward journey, on a mission to prevent a demonic resurrection. As Genjo Sanzo, Cho Hakkai, Sha Gojyo, and Son Goku (Kenichi Enomoto) fight their way to their goal, their path is fraught with internal strife.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-11-06
Popularity:
1948-12-31
Overview: A modern take on history with songs and comedy presented by Enoken (as Gonza), Fujiyama (as Sukeju), and Kasagi (Gonza’s wife Osaki).
Genres: History Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-12-31
Popularity:
1961-12-06
Overview: A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-06
Popularity:
1949-02-08
Overview: Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-02-08
Popularity:
1934-05-03
Overview:
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-05-03
Popularity:
1945-11-22
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-11-22
Popularity:
1961-02-02
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-02
Popularity:
1956-07-20
Overview: The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant fought against evil in olden times.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-20
Popularity:
1947-01-14
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-01-14
Popularity:
1958-12-28
Overview: Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-28
Popularity:
1949-09-27
Overview: Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother so she can heals him with a golden fruit. But O-fuku and Tobisuke had to cross the valley of death filled with fantastic creatures, will they survive?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-27
Popularity:
1950-10-15
Overview: Set in the Sengoku period, Tokugawa vassal Yakurota (Kenichi Enomoto) helps the older sister and twin sister of the Matsudaira family who are in love with his best friend Iori while also resolving the conflict between the Tokugawa and Oda Nobunaga.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-15
Popularity:
1955-04-24
Overview: A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crime of killing with laughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-24
Popularity:
1942-04-23
Overview: A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snooping around, however, he finds himself reluctantly drawn in to the case.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-04-23
Popularity:
1937-08-01
Overview: 1930s Japanese comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-08-01
Popularity:
1937-07-11
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-11
Popularity:
1939-09-19
Overview: Two hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men try to one-up each other on a luxurious beach vacation neither's family can afford.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-09-19
Popularity:
1936-07-21
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-07-21
Popularity:
1935-10-11
Overview: Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration.
Genres: Music Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-10-11
Popularity:
1936-09-01
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-09-01
Popularity:
1937-12-31
Overview: Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - in war or in love.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-12-31
Popularity:
1936-01-31
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-01-31
Popularity:
1934-10-25
Overview: 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!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-10-25
Popularity:
1940-03-27
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-03-27
Popularity:
1940-05-15
Overview: Enoken trains to be a great sumo wrestler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-05-15
Popularity:
1939-08-10
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-08-10
Popularity:
1939-05-21
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-05-21
Popularity:
1938-06-21
Overview: An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-06-21
Popularity:
1939-12-29
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-29
Popularity:
1948-09-07
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-09-07
Popularity:
1950-09-09
Overview: A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while avoiding her wealthy, absentee father, his hired goons, and the neighborhood fortune teller (Enoken) who's after the reward money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-09-09
Popularity:
1962-01-25
Overview: A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-25
Popularity:
1956-02-05
Overview: Based on a comic strip by Kaoru Akiyoshi. First in a four part film series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-05
Popularity:
1959-11-01
Overview: The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the Emperor's vassal, prefers Ouso's stepbrother, and conspires to have Ouso die on a dangerous mission he has contrived. But Ouso prevails in the mission and returns to his father's castle under a new name, Prince Yamato Takeru. Otomo plots to have the Prince sent into even greater danger, but Otomo is unaware that the gods have favored the Prince and the outcome is far from what any of them expected.
Genres: Fantasy Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-01
Popularity:
1957-01-29
Overview: Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-29
Popularity:
1947-04-01
Overview: Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-04-01
Popularity:
1943-04-01
Overview:
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-04-01
Popularity:
1947-10-12
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-10-12
Popularity:
1942-11-05
Overview:
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-11-05
Popularity:
1944-01-14
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-01-14
Popularity:
1944-07-06
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-07-06
Popularity:
1955-01-03
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-03
Popularity:
1962-03-07
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-07
Popularity:
1951-06-07
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-07
Popularity:
1958-12-28
Overview: An entertainment movie featuring familiar faces of Toyama no Kin-san, Nezumi Kozo, Yaji Kita, and others who traveled around the Tokaido. Written and directed by Kunio Watanabe. A group of samurai rushed into the Sakura Opera Troupe in the mountain village, chasing a young woman named Chiyohime who was promoting dancing around Edo Asakusa area. Suri Nao and Kinshiro Toyama was there and saved her. Meanwhile, the samurai asked the acquaintance Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi to find her. Jirokichi visited Kinshiro 's house, and found her there…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-28
Popularity:
1957-02-25
Overview: Tomo no shichijo, Mikawa CHO, who captured the mysterious robbery of a bird who had made a mistake in Edo hachihyaku CHO, was in the midst of the celebration. It was sadakichi nakanokami of otsukasa sandaya who came to rush there. Sadayoshi, who was stained with a blood stain arrow, came to sandaya with kinda no Kata. Tomoshichi, who was married to his husband Mohei and his daughter, ogi, and rokubei Ohira, stayed at mitaraya that evening.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-25
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