Keiju Kobayashi Movies

As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By...

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception,...

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

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

After receiving a phone call from a woman whose child has contracted polio, government official Masayoshi Sakata decides to do everything he can to...

Modern comedy.

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

A lively, energetic film featuring a cast of up-and-coming actors, depicting the worries and joys of youth, friendship, and romance.

The story depicts a young man suffering from an incurable disease trying to live his life to the fullest in the time he has left. Based on the true...

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...

The dramatized tale of the 1935 creation of Japan's first superhero, the "Golden Bat", alongside the changes during and after the Second World War,...

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

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

A film filled with eroticism and humor, set in the Northern Alps where a naked woman has appeared, as depicted in the article “Naked Woman...

Three men with completely different backgrounds and beliefs—one in his forties who lived through the war, one in his thirties who grew up in...