Keiju Kobayashi Movies

Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian grandfather, Jig...

Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.

Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

Japanese drama film.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an es...

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based...

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

Murder case.

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...

An attorney from Yokohama is found murdered at Lake Toya in Hokkaido. Uematsu (Noi Yasuo),of the Hokkaido police goes to Yokohama in search of Konno...

A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally injured...