Tokuji Kobayashi
Birthday: 1901-03-09
Place of Birth: Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
I Will Buy You
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...
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One Wonderful Sunday
Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h...
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Hotaru no hikari
Approaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight trip ...
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Apart from You
An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geish...
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Mother's Love Letter
Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo ...
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King of the Land
Japanese silent film from 1928, ranked as Kinema Junpo's second-best Japanese movie of the year....
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The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food le...
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Next Door to Happiness
The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer secti...
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White Blaze
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of t...
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Woman in the Mist
Otoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed every...
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The Trio's Engagements
Three men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted Japane...
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Always in My Heart
Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during th...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn....
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Day-Dream
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women,...
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Namida no hanamichi
Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had ch...
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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 fi...
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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 conta...
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Marching On
A farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real aircraft, de...
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Osayo Koi Sugata
The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. Wit...
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Okoto and Sasuke
A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devo...
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and M...
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So Goes My Love
Shigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a better ...
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Crying to the Blue Sky
After losing their parents, Eiichi and his sister Kikue are taken in by their aunt and uncle. Kikue ...
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Pen...
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
A playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he discovers t...
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The Groom Talks in His Sleep
A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely...
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Burden of Life
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to...
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The Rose on His Arm
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of de...
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My Elder Brother
Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza w...
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Lady Doctor Kinuyo
Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families al...
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Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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Love
Heinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a fath...
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The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
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Treasure Mountain
A young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the romance do...
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Maria of the Ant Village
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young ...
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Family Meeting
A melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life....
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Twenty-Four Eyes
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village ...
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The Lights of Asakusa
Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop f...
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A Japanese Tragedy
At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her un...
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Equinox Flower
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...
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Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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Men vs. Women
A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the er...
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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. T...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
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College Is a Nice Place
In a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their studie...
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A Woman's Life
The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mothe...
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Beyond The Pass
The debut film of Hiroshi Shimizu is about a man who, while searching for his lost daughter, encount...
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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...
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Silver Stream
Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the...
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Haha machi gusa
Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day ...
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Elegy
Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony...
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Mado Kara Tobidase
The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between two f...
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Young Master
Japanese silent film from 1926. (Obo-chan meaning "Young Master.") Written by Ayame Mizushima, the f...
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Where Do Women Go?
Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima....
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
The three-hour Ai yo jinrui to tomo ni are / Love, Be with Humanity (1931) starts as a satire of ali...
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The Golden Demon
Kan’ichi Hazama and Omiya Shigisawa are engaged to be married, but Omiya breaks the engagement to ma...
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Shine, Japanese Women
Shigeko and Midori, star swimmers at the renowned Kirishima Girls’ School, are training relentlessly...
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The Genealogy of Women
A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparentl...
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