Keiju Kobayashi Movies

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

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 love story about a dressing room attendant and a dancer who work at theater.

1962 Japanese movie

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

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...

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

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke.

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a...

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

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...

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...

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

The fifth entry in the Company President Series

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

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

A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and...

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...