Tokuji Kobayashi Movies

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

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...

Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have...

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

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

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

Hiroo Ikeda movie

The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire

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

Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...

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

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

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...

Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.