Tokuji Kobayashi Movies

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...

A young man torn between love and friendship.

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...

Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year.

Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima.

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

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

Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the first female screenwriter in Japan.

A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...

Hiroo Ikeda movie

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...

Manao Horiuchi movie

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

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

Japanese silent film from 1929.

Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly with their sights set on the Los Angeles...