Tokuji Kobayashi
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1901-03-09
Locus Natus: Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Et ut: Токудзи Кобаяси
I Will Buy You
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
release : 1956.11.21popularis : 3.411
One Wonderful Sunday
Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen. They manage to have...
release : 1947.07.01popularis : 13.415
Hotaru no hikari
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip to Hakone with their teacher Ms. Kawahara, who...
release : 1938.04.14popularis : 1.134
Apart from You
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...
release : 1933.04.01popularis : 2.599
Mother's Love Letter
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.
release : 1935.04.18popularis : 0.734
Moth-eaten Spring
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
release : 1932.05.27popularis : 0.834
The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...
release : 1958.06.01popularis : 18.14
Next Door to Happiness
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...
release : 1955.09.07popularis : 2.006
White Blaze
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
release : 1958.03.04popularis : 1.247
Woman in the Mist
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed everything but who now seems to be headed for a...
release : 1936.05.14popularis : 0.633
The Trio's Engagements
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japanese director Yasujiro Shimazu.
release : 1937.07.18popularis : 2.94
Always in My Heart
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....
release : 1953.09.15popularis : 3.431
Day-Dream
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the...
release : 1964.12.04popularis : 3.556
涙の花道
Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke...
release : 1956.02.19popularis : 1.265
Dancing Girls of Izu
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...
release : 1954.03.31popularis : 0.958
その手にのるな
A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken...
release : 1958.02.16popularis : 1.886
Haha o tataeru uta
A widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
release : 1939.07.06popularis : 0.629
Marching On
A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, develops a friendship with the daughter of...
release : 1930.03.07popularis : 0.823
Osayo koisugata
The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble...
release : 1934.09.14popularis : 0.964
Okoto and Sasuke
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...
release : 1935.06.15popularis : 1.817
The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...
release : 1933.01.14popularis : 0.826
So Goes My Love
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better tomorrow every day. Both live on what Minako...
release : 1938.04.01popularis : 0.657
Crying to the Blue Sky
Directed by Mikio Naruse. It is presumed to be lost.
release : 1932.03.10popularis : 1.739
The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers there are plenty of ways to get sidetracked in his...
release : 1931.08.01popularis : 2.426
The Dancing Girl of Izu
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets...
release : 1933.02.01popularis : 3.48
Burden of Life
Family drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was...
release : 1935.12.10popularis : 0.942
The Groom Talks in His Sleep
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...
release : 1935.01.13popularis : 0.54
The Rose on His Arm
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
release : 1956.11.14popularis : 0.771
My Elder Brother
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...
release : 1934.12.13popularis : 1.299
Lady Doctor Kinuyo
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...
release : 1937.04.29popularis : 1.078
Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
release : 1958.01.15popularis : 4.78
Happy Times
A young couple is harrased by an uncle.
release : 1933.10.19popularis : 0.825
Love
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a father who projects his professional desires on the...
release : 1933.11.09popularis : 1.148
The River Fuefuki
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...
release : 1960.10.19popularis : 1.635
Treasure Mountain
A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance doesn't find favour with his father or current...
release : 1929.02.22popularis : 0.529
Maria of the Ant Village
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...
release : 1958.12.07popularis : 2.463
Family Meeting
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
release : 1936.04.03popularis : 0.857
Twenty-Four Eyes
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...
release : 1954.09.15popularis : 8.389
The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....
release : 1937.12.02popularis : 2.335
A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...
release : 1953.06.17popularis : 2.315
Equinox Flower
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...
release : 1958.09.07popularis : 9.54
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...
release : 1961.01.15popularis : 4.928
Men vs. Women
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.
release : 1936.08.29popularis : 2.024
A Brother and His Younger Sister
A man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger sister. The younger sister's a modern girl who's starting...
release : 1939.04.01popularis : 1.59
The Loyal 47 Ronin
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...
release : 1932.03.01popularis : 1.298
College Is a Nice Place
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studies and find jobs. Considered a lost film.
release : 1936.03.19popularis : 1.77
Nikutai no bōfū
The love of an older sister who worked as a geisha but decided to open a bar under the auspices of a millionaire
release : 1931.03.26popularis : 0.376
The Age of Emotion
A young man torn between love and friendship.
release : 1928.03.01popularis : 0.515
Silver Stream
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is...
release : 1931.02.14popularis : 1.758
Haha machi gusa
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the...
release : 1951.08.17popularis : 2.013
Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...
release : 1951.02.22popularis : 2.569
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...
release : 1950.03.26popularis : 2.058
Living Things
Living Things a film by Heinosuke Gosho
release : 1934.11.15popularis : 1.002