Toshiko Kobayashi
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as (uncredited)After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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Cruel Story of Youth
as TerukoA budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for...
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Twenty-Four Eyes
as SanaeFrom 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese...
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Fireworks Over the Sea
as MidoriA fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains...
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Carmen Comes Home
as Maya AkemiA rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware...
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Black Lizard
as HinaA detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to...
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Boyhood
as Toyo, MaidWhen a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.
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Fountainhead
as Ando's wife YayoiA botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
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The Thick-Walled Room
as Yamashita's sisterA group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves...
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
as uncreditedOn the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and...
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The Story of Pure Love
as uncreditedJunai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling...
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The Good Fairy
as SuzueThe wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to...
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Bad Girl
as uncreditedWakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom....
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Hisako, Shinkichi's sisterThis drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in...
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The Tattered Wings
as Tokiko, Fuyuko's sisterA young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor...
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Carmen's Innocent Love
as AkemiStrip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing...
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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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Thus Another Day
as Haruko MoriA father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in...
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The Eternal Rainbow
as HisakoTwo men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job,...
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Danger Stalks Near
as SakuraThe plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house...
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Summer Soldiers
as Mrs. TachikawaThe plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture...
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Always in My Heart Part 3
as uncreditedMachiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet...
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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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Beautiful Days
as uncreditedMasaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
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Modern People
as uncreditedA section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction...
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Broken Drum
as AkikoWhen the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his...
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Always in My Heart Part 2
as uncreditedMachiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.
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New Tokyo March
as Fumiko IchinoseFollows six male friends from elementary school whose career paths diverge—newspaper reporter,...
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