Tokuji Kobayashi Movies

Manao Horiuchi movie

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Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Numasaki

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kuwano

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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Cast: Shozaburo Abe

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

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Cast: Denmei Suzuki

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuko Wakamizu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denmei Suzuki

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Katsuragi

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiko Iizuka

Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shūji Sano

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

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanako Michi

Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke...

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Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomio Aoki

A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children

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Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

Genre: War

Cast: Denmei Suzuki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tamu Masuda

The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shūji Sano

Hiroo Ikeda movie

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Cast: Ichirō Izawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomio Aoki

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Atsushi Watanabe

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroko Kawasaki

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Ishihama

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinichirō Mikami

A young couple is harrased by an uncle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ureo Egawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Okada

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

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

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Cast: Tokuji Kobayashi

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

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Cast: Kakuko Chino

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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: Teiji Takahashi

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

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

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Cast: Kamesaburo Bando

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sumiko Kurishima

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiaki Konoe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Debut film by Hiroshi Shimizu.

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Cast: Eiji Oshimoto

The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire

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Cast: Emiko Yagumo

A young man torn between love and friendship.

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Cast: Denmei Suzuki

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...

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Cast: Emiko Yagumo

Genre: Music

Cast: Michiko Namiki

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Inochi uruwashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata