Keiju Kobayashi
Ezaguna: Acting
Urtebetetzea: 1923-11-23
Jaioterria: Gunma, Japan
Ezaguna ere: Кэйдзю Кобаяси
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
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...
Askatu : 1952.05.14Ospea : 1.784
Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...
Askatu : 1962.01.01Ospea : 17.818
The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...
Askatu : 1961.10.29Ospea : 11.847
Whisper of the Heart
Shizuku lives a simple life, dominated by her love for stories and writing. One day she notices that all the library books she has have been...
Askatu : 1995.07.15Ospea : 23.952
Love's Cheerleader
Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals
Askatu : 1952.06.19Ospea : 1.721
47 Ronin
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
Askatu : 1962.11.03Ospea : 5.952
First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband
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...
Askatu : 1953.11.11Ospea : 1.215
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...
Askatu : 1969.12.05Ospea : 5.523
Repast
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Askatu : 1951.11.23Ospea : 5.925
Godzilla 1985
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage...
Askatu : 1985.08.23Ospea : 13.742
To Love
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,...
Askatu : 1997.10.04Ospea : 2.994
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
Askatu : 1963.11.16Ospea : 5.532
Ôban
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...
Askatu : 1957.03.05Ospea : 1.79
Samurai Assassin
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...
Askatu : 1965.01.03Ospea : 6.488
Yaji and Kita on the Road
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...
Askatu : 1958.04.29Ospea : 4.096
Submersion of Japan
A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic...
Askatu : 1973.12.29Ospea : 4.19
Black Comedy - Ah, Fool
A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.
Askatu : 1969.06.14Ospea : 2.015
The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...
Askatu : 1969.11.22Ospea : 1.482
The Storm of the Pacific
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...
Askatu : 1960.04.26Ospea : 4.038
Mount Hakkoda
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...
Askatu : 1977.06.04Ospea : 4.126
Master Fencer Sees the World
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...
Askatu : 1960.10.16Ospea : 2.608
Tree Without Leaves
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his...
Askatu : 1986.11.15Ospea : 2.909
The Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...
Askatu : 1971.08.14Ospea : 5.381
Summer Clouds
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...
Askatu : 1958.09.02Ospea : 4.217
Sudden Rain
A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.
Askatu : 1956.01.14Ospea : 3.653
The Thin Line
Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....
Askatu : 1966.02.12Ospea : 4.587
For Business
Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.
Askatu : 1986.08.22Ospea : 1.052
Judge and Jeopardy
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...
Askatu : 1968.06.08Ospea : 1.237
Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...
Askatu : 1965.10.09Ospea : 2.799
The Man From Chungking
Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
Askatu : 1943.11.11Ospea : 0.822
The Ambitious
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own...
Askatu : 1970.02.14Ospea : 2.615
田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ
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...
Askatu : 1977.07.02Ospea : 1.051
Settlement of Love
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...
Askatu : 1956.03.28Ospea : 2.88
The Rainbow Man
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...
Askatu : 1949.07.18Ospea : 3.133
One Summer's Day
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding...
Askatu : 1999.07.03Ospea : 3.122
The Imperial Navy
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...
Askatu : 1981.08.08Ospea : 4.619
A Wife's Heart
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...
Askatu : 1956.05.03Ospea : 2.537
Tasmania Story
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by...
Askatu : 1990.06.21Ospea : 1.585
Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Askatu : 1953.01.22Ospea : 2.561
Happiness of Us Alone
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...
Askatu : 1961.01.15Ospea : 3.52
Life's Simple Pleasures
A masterpiece of life sketches overflowing with heartwarming affection and laughter that portrays the modern common people with humor and pathos,...
Askatu : 1955.05.17Ospea : 1.478
Little Peach
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...
Askatu : 1958.05.13Ospea : 3.443
A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...
Askatu : 1962.09.29Ospea : 4.519
My Hobo
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...
Askatu : 1962.11.23Ospea : 2.339
White Love
Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language...
Askatu : 1979.08.03Ospea : 4.095
Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...
Askatu : 1955.02.12Ospea : 1.266
Diary of a Nurse
Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.
Askatu : 1947.07.01Ospea : 0.703
Dimple of Tokyo
Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san"...
Askatu : 1952.07.15Ospea : 2.859
The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
Askatu : 1962.01.14Ospea : 1.876
The Return of Godzilla
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the...
Askatu : 1984.12.15Ospea : 13.863
The Lost Alibi
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...
Askatu : 1960.03.13Ospea : 2.797
Mr. Pu
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
Askatu : 1953.04.15Ospea : 2.66
Nonki saiban
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...
Askatu : 1955.04.24Ospea : 6.166
Yawara!
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,...
Askatu : 1989.04.15Ospea : 1.591
The Gentlemen’s Alliance
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.
Askatu : 1986.12.13Ospea : 1
I Hear the Whistle
Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.
Askatu : 1971.09.24Ospea : 3.678
Snow in the South Seas
Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.
Askatu : 1961.09.29Ospea : 1.787
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Hidden Fortress'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Hidden Fortress" (1958).
Askatu : 2002.10.25Ospea : 0.808
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).
Askatu : 2002.10.25Ospea : 0.68
Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an...
Askatu : 1976.05.29Ospea : 1.589
Makeraremasen katsumadewa
Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.
Askatu : 1958.01.09Ospea : 1.185
Beast Alley
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." ...
Askatu : 1965.09.05Ospea : 2.296
Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.
Askatu : 1962.11.23Ospea : 1.047
Price of Beauty
Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
Askatu : 1957.03.13Ospea : 0.58
Tokyo Sweetheart
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...
Askatu : 1952.07.15Ospea : 2.125
The Case Files of Detective Superintendent Muta 25 - The Case of the Woman Who Slayed at Lake Toya
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...
Askatu : 1998.08.08Ospea : 1.223
Challenge for Glory
A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally...
Askatu : 1966.10.18Ospea : 2.868
The Naked General
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
Askatu : 1958.10.28Ospea : 1.404
Adolescence Part II
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
Askatu : 1953.07.01Ospea : 1.288
Young Challengers
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of...
Askatu : 1968.10.12Ospea : 1.252
The Daphne
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...
Askatu : 1966.10.01Ospea : 0.42
Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Askatu : 1951.01.13Ospea : 1.717
Inspector Muta's Incident Files: Yokohama to Kushiro Field. The Mystery of the Triple Murder That Only Marimo Knows.
A woman is discovered strangled inside a car, and Inspector Muta of the Yamashita police station hurries to the scene! The relationship between the...
Askatu : 2001.02.24Ospea : 1.382
The Tiger of Malaya
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
Askatu : 1943.06.24Ospea : 1.178
Mother Country
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...
Askatu : 1962.04.29Ospea : 1.388
A Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a...
Askatu : 1987.02.07Ospea : 3.991
Tora-san, the Intellectual
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...
Askatu : 1975.12.27Ospea : 1.534
Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...
Askatu : 1953.10.21Ospea : 1.329
Red-Light Bases
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
Askatu : 1953.12.08Ospea : 0.932
Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells
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...
Askatu : 2005.09.09Ospea : 2.009
The President Talks Bank
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
Askatu : 1956.03.20Ospea : 2.004
The President's Boss
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
Askatu : 1956.01.03Ospea : 1.772
Girls in the Orchard
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...
Askatu : 1953.09.15Ospea : 1.187
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...
Askatu : 1951.08.03Ospea : 2.081
はりきり社長
The third instalment in the Shacho Series.
Askatu : 1956.07.13Ospea : 1.427
Five Gents' Trick Book
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
Askatu : 1965.01.03Ospea : 1.727
社長太平記
Sixth entry in the Company President Series.
Askatu : 1959.01.03Ospea : 0.934
Zoku shachōtaiheiki
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
Askatu : 1959.03.15Ospea : 2.253
The Third President
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
Askatu : 1958.03.18Ospea : 3.085
Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
Askatu : 1967.08.03Ospea : 6.95
Mado Kara Tobidase
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two families. Shusuke Tokuyama (Den Obinata) runs an...
Askatu : 1950.03.26Ospea : 2.048