Toshiko Kobayashi Movies

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but...

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

1956 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese movie

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is...

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

Minako, Sadae, and Momoyo were all in love with their filial art teacher, Sasaki Shinya, but when Momoyo realized that Shinya loved Minako, she gave...

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and...

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...

The Matsukawa family lived modestly as a close-knit trio of mother and daughters, relying on the income from the younger daughter, Motoko, who worked...