Toshiko Kobayashi Movies

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

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.

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...

A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.

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

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...

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

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....

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...

This story takes place at a school under the new educational system. It all began when a love letter addressed to Takeshi Kodama, the straightforward...

The film is based on the theme song of the same name sung by Hashi Yukio.

1956 Japanese movie

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

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.

Follows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter, engineer, boxer, sushi restaurant...