Toshiko Kobayashi

The plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture clash between the troubled Americans and the Japanese who try to help him.

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

15歳の若枝はうす汚ないバーで酔客と酒を飲み、ヤケクソのように女給のハイヒールをかっぱらってとび出した。東京で仕事に失敗して帰って来た21歳の三郎は、職安通いの空虚な毎日を送っていた。暗く陰うつな北陸の空、金沢の映画館の前で幼ななじみの二人は再会した。三郎はうらぶれた彼女に、なけなしの金からスカートを買ってやった。喜んだ若枝は、のんだくれの父親長吉と、いやな継母のいる家をとび出したわけを話した。若枝をこれ以上堕落させまいと決心した三郎は、翌日から少しずつおくれた勉強を教えてやった。若枝の心にやすらぎがよみがえり、三郎はうれし泣きする彼女の涙をそっとすすってやるのだった…。

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 followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

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...

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 newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.

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.

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

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 laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.

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

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.

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

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.

大石久子は昭和3年、新任教師として瀬戸内海にある小豆島の分校に赴任した。久子が受け持つことになった一年生は十二人で、みな澄んだ瞳をしていた。やがて久子は本校へ転任することになった。しかし貧しい村の教え子たちは、一人として望み通り進学することができなかった。戦争をはさんで島の分校に戻った久子は、そこでかつての教え子たちと再会する。

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

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

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.

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

Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles.

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 subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.

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

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

A girl who'd left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal.

Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future.

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.