Yōko Kozono Movies

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...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

A beautiful and healthy young girl growing up in poverty overcomes hardships and grows into a woman in this deeply moving literary epic.

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

1962 Japanese movie

A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one...

Isamu is a high school student who raises a pigeon at home amidst his father's opposition.

Motomu Ida movie

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.

Sanae Nakahara, playing the role of a proactive female college student, persuades a stubborn old man and mediates the forbidden love of a young...

1962 Japanese movie

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.