Toshiko Kobayashi Movies

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.