Tokuji Kobayashi
The Ballad of Narayama
as One of the villagers who teaches Narayama's manners (uncredited)In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of...
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Equinox Flower
as SchoolmateWataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
as Matsue no ChichiIn 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of...
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One Wonderful Sunday
as Overweight apartment receptionistYuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on...
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Day-Dream
as Old patientWhile under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked...
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A Japanese Tragedy
as uncreditedAt the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up...
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Stakeout
as Laundry ownerTwo detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...
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Elegy
as uncreditedWataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its...
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The Neighbour's Wife and Mine
as uncreditedA playwright moves to a rural neighborhood to avoid the distractions of the city, but he...
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I Will Buy You
as uncreditedA talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...
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The Trio's Engagements
as An examineeThree men vying for the same job end up chasing the same girl in this comedy-drama from noted...
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Always in My Heart
as uncreditedMachiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge...
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Dancing Girls of Izu
as uncreditedA dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about...
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Family Meeting
as Clerk AA melodrama about a businessman's relations with the three women in his life.
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The Lights of Asakusa
as PerfumerPre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking...
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The Rose on His Arm
as Neighbour on the right, MisterIgnoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world...
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The River Fuefuki
as uncreditedIn a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very...
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Next Door to Happiness
as uncreditedThe Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer...
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Apart from You
as GuestAn aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young...
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Joi Kinuyo sensei
as Patient AKinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their...
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Haha machi gusa
as uncreditedAsako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one...
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College is a Nice Place
as NishidaIn a Tokyo boarding house a group of students and recent graduates struggle to complete their...
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Love
as KonishiHeinosuke Gosho evokes in this film the family conflicts engendered by the eternal problem of a...
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Treasure Mountain
as TanjiroA young man falls for one of the geisha working in the house where he lives. However, the...
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A Brother and His Younger Sister
as Eiji SawadaA man who works late hours at a deadening job lives together with his wife and his younger...
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Burden of Life
as Shunkichi KuriyamaFamily drama. A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his...
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So Goes My Love
as uncreditedShigeo is an aspiring writer living with his girl friend Minako and hoping for success and a...
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Don't get in your hands
as uncreditedA woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag...
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My Elder Brother
as СэнкоJyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the...
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The Bride Talks in Her Sleep
as KomuraThis pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
as Genzaemon TonomuraThis 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed...
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The Dancing Girl of Izu
as Eikichi, brother of Kaoru"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu...
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Woman in the Mist
as A studentOtoku asks her brother Bunkichi to speak with her son Seiichi, a young man for whom sacrificed...
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Maria of the Ant Village
as uncreditedAlongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a...
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Happiness of Us Alone
as uncreditedThe story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a...
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Haha o tataeru uta
as uncreditedA widow works as an insurance seller to raise her three children
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Men vs. Women
as uncreditedA musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of...
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Hotaru no hikari
as uncreditedApproaching their graduation ceremony, Saegusa, Sanae, and their classmates go on an overnight...
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Mado Kara Tobidase
as Evangelist for 'Oterashi'The movie "Jump Out of the Window" is a heartwarming work that depicts the interaction between...
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White Blaze
as uncreditedA masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel...
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涙の花道
as 中村吉蔵Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba,...
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Mother's Love Letter
as uncreditedDomestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run...
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Okoto and Sasuke
as uncreditedA period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her...
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Marching On
as uncreditedA farmer’s boy, obsessed with his balsa-and-paper flying models and with dreams of real...
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Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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Silver Stream
as uncreditedMichiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid...
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Osayo koisugata
as SumidaThe poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head....
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