Filmes

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...

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

Strife between competing lumber mills.

The TV movie is about a third-rate female lawyer who is an alcoholic, has a history of divorce, and only handles divorce settlements. She spends her...

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

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

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.

Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the...

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion...

A musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.

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...