Tokuji Kobayashi Movies

Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.

Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho

Hiroo Ikeda movie

Manao Horiuchi movie

Based on the Sakatayama double suicide

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...

After losing their parents, Eiichi and his sister Kikue are taken in by their aunt and uncle. Kikue is sent to Tokyo to work as a servant. Left...

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...

A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...

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

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...

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

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...

A young man torn between love and friendship.

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.