Wataru Kobayashi Movies

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

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...

A 1970 crime film.

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and...

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

1962 Japanese movie

This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of murderous intent, and the efforts of a journalist...

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

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1962 Japanese movie

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...