Keiju Kobayashi Movies

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

1958 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

An Ishiro Honda Film.

Murder case.

Based on the comic by Fuyuhiko Okabe.

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

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.