Keiju Kobayashi Movies

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

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,...

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...

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

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

The third instalment in the Shacho Series.

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...

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

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

An attorney from Yokohama is found murdered at Lake Toya in Hokkaido. Uematsu (Noi Yasuo), of the Hokkaido police goes to Yokohama in search of Konno...

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to...

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.