Tokuji Kobayashi Movies

1926 jidaigeki (period drama) directed by Hiroshi Shimizu.

Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to marry a wealthy banker’s son....

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...

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

After losing their parents, Eiichi and his sister Kikue are taken in by their aunt and uncle. Kikue is sent to Tokyo to work as a servant. Left...

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 modern girl suddenly intrudes into a widower's family home.

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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

Japanese film from 1932.

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 debut film of Hiroshi Shimizu is about a man who, while searching for his lost daughter, encounters a young woman and her mother who are also...

Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...

Japanese silent film from 1928.

1962 Japanese movie