Keiju Kobayashi Movies

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

An intoxicated man promises two magazine editors that he will write a masterpiece. Once he sobers up, he commits to his promise and writes a story...

An omnibus comedy set in a newly built housing complex, the film follows seven interconnected stories about the everyday vices simmering behind thin...

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

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...

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century...

Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-'80s bubble economy.

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

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...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

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...

The third installment in the Shacho Series.

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...

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...

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.