Movies: Toshiko Kobayashi

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

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

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 Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite his difficult circumstances, he finds love in the form of Sachiko and the two marry. They later trav...

During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the capital he gets involved with an anti-war organization while dodging the military police....

1956 Japanese movie...

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. Machiko and Haruki pledge to meet again at the bridge in six months but part without asking each other’s names....

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again....

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

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 their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man......

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

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial ...

The Human Condition follows the journey of the well-intentioned, yet naïve Kaji who transitions from being a labor camp supervisor to an Imperial Army soldier and eventually Soviet POW. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and ...

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

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe....

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 over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followe...

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

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

This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves when they are freed from selfish desires and self-interest....

The Matsukawa family lived modestly as a close-knit trio of mother and daughters, relying on the income from the younger daughter, Motoko, who worked at a Western-style clothing store in Ginza, and their meager savings. This film was adapted from Nak...