Tokuji Kobayashi Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

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

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

Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly with their sights set on the Los Angeles...

Inochi uruwashi

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

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...

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

Manao Horiuchi movie