Keiju Kobayashi Movies

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

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

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...

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

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,...

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

1950s Japanese comedy.

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...

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

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

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

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...

A comedy featuring The Golden Bat

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"...

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

Japanese drama film.

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