Movies: Toshiko Kobayashi

Minako, Sadae, and Momoyo were all in love with their filial art teacher, Sasaki Shinya, but when Momoyo realized that Shinya loved Minako, she gave up and devoted herself to painting, and Sadae was so frustrated that she even staged a fake suicide. ...

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 Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his...

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 personal circumstances....

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men....

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

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when pu...

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 at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and...

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 childhood sweetheart....

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 whole....

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new ...

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....

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....

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The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan....

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant owner—but whose romantic lives intersect. (MoMA)...

Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but Hiroyuki becomes torn between his love for Ikuko and his duty towards his sick wife....

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker....

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

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