Keiju Kobayashi Movies

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

A straight-laced employee is tasked with supervising his impulsive CEO during a business trip intended to revive struggling sales.

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...

1958 Japanese movie

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by local pleasures and personal entanglements. By...

1962 Japanese movie

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

A heartwarming depiction of the episode behind the birth of "Golden Bat," a picture story show that was overwhelmingly popular with children in 1935.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language...

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a...

After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate matchmaking and a high-stakes business conflict...

A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...

A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to...

As his fashion company rides a wave of post-recession success, President Kurihara seeks to expand into women’s apparel through a deepening...

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.