Keiju Kobayashi Movies

A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes...

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...

Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon...

Three men with completely different backgrounds and beliefs—one in his forties who lived through the war, one in his thirties who grew up in...

The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the...

There are male and female students working part-time jobs in the city center while facing the harsh realities of society as they struggle to pay for...

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

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.

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...

The third of four "The Surprising Legend of Jirocho" films.

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...

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...

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...