Keiju Kobayashi Movies

1950s Japanese comedy.

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).

A comedy featuring The Golden Bat

Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to practice judo by her authoritarian grandfather,...

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

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

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

Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.

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

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...

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

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...

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...