Wataru Kobayashi Movies

In pre-war Japan, Yumiko, an aristocratic lady, accompanied by her maid, travels to Tokyo to visit her brother. Unaware that her brother has become...

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

Japanese crime film

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Strife between competing lumber mills.

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...

The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...

A 1970 crime film.

A husband runs a jewelry store, supported by his serious and chaste wife. It was an ordinary and peaceful marriage. One day, the husband was...

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

A high school girl has a secret crush on her older cousin. When he has an accident mountain climbing she decides to give herself to him. He roughly...

1962 Japanese movie