Nenji Kobayashi Movies

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals. The rest of the...

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...

Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was...

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people.

Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story...

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a...

The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially...

A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.

During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in...

A high school student Hitomi poses as a university student and ends up in falling in love with middle-aged Okawa, her dead mother's ex-boyfriend....

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son...