Kotoe Hatsui Movies

Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and...

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government...

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns...

A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real...

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

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...