Keiju Kobayashi Movies

1950s Japanese comedy.

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

Part one of The Masterless 47.

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

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

Sixth entry in the Company President Series.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

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