Keiju Kobayashi Movies

Senta lives with his mother and little brother and supports them by working at day at a factory and attending eighth grade in the evening. One day he...

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

After a major corporate merger, a middle-aged executive is demoted but unexpectedly appointed president of a small subsidiary.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between the...

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

A young Tokyo couple’s blissful newlywed life is turned upside down when an unexpected pregnancy arrives, sending them on a whirlwind quest for...

The first in a series of 31 "mother films" produced by Daiei in the post-war period.

A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and...

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...