Toshiko Kobayashi Movies

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūsuke Kawazu

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Tamura

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kō Mishima

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Mishima

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Noriko Arita

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akihiro Miwa

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keith Sykes

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Genre: War

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima