Enoken’s Kinta the Pickpocket

Enoken’s Kinta the Pickpocket

74 mins | Comedy | July 11, 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.

Enoken’s Kinta the Pickpocket

74 mins | Comedy | July 11, 1937

Enoken’s Kinta the Pickpocket
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.
Producers P.C.L. Eiga Seisaku-jo
Original title エノケンのちゃっきり金太
Directors Kajirō Yamamoto
Writers Kajirō Yamamoto