Keiju Kobayashi Movies

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...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yoko Honna

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raymond Burr

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Sakai

1950s Japanese comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

Genre: War

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1958 Japanese movie

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Musei Tokugawa

Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noritake Kinashi

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?

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Cast: Teruyo Asagumo

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Takuro Atsuki

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kunie Tanaka

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A comedy featuring The Golden Bat

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kishi

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Orihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hideko Takamine

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian grandfather,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yui Asaka

Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masayuki Yui

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masayuki Yui

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." ...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Murder case.

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Cast: Toshihiko Tahara

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

An attorney from Yokohama is found murdered at Lake Toya in Hokkaido. Uematsu (Noi Yasuo), of the Hokkaido police goes to Yokohama in search of Konno...

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ippo Fujikawa

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyoko Aoyama

A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

An Ishiro Honda Film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Nakata

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

Genre: War

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

August 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor works to help his patients, as unsettling news comes of...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The third instalment in the Shacho Series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Could I But Live

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Chiaki

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

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Cast: Koji Nakata

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

A love story about a dressing room attendant and a dancer who work at theater.

Genre: Drama

Cast: San'yutei Kasho

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Keiju Kobayashi