Wataru Kobayashi Movies

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claude Jade

In pre-war Japan, Yumiko, an aristocratic lady, accompanied by her maid, travels to Tokyo to visit her brother. Unaware that her brother has become...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naomi Tani

A nurse is framed for medical malpractice. In prison she meets the boss of their cell who is in for a crime of passion. They both have a reason to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hitomi Kozue

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

A husband runs a jewelry store, supported by his serious and chaste wife. It was an ordinary and peaceful marriage. One day, the husband was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Miyashita

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu"...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideaki Nitani

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Genshū Hanayagi

When the boss of a yakuza clan in 1920s Osaka is assassinated, Oryu, his mistress, vows revenge. Her search for the killer takes her out of the city....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Naomi Tani

An arrogant and privileged lady of wealth finds she is in need of a loan. The man who offers to help her was a former chauffeur who she had...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Naomi Tani

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Yuki returns to her hometown after several years. She has been away ever since the tragic events surrounding her abusive older husband. While in town...

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Cast: Naomi Tani

"Jealous" man-killer Mayumi (Hitomi Kozue) is sent back into solitary confinement after being re-arrested for the murder of the doctor who fingered...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hitomi Kozue

Strife between competing lumber mills.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A high school girl has a secret crush on her older cousin. When he has an accident mountain climbing she decides to give herself to him. He roughly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Terumi Azuma

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

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Cast: Hiromi Maya

A 1970 crime film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune