Keiju Kobayashi Movies

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

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...

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller...

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

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

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...

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

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked...

August 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor works to help his patients, as unsettling news comes of...

1962 Japanese movie

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.