Wataru Kobayashi Movies

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

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...

Yuki returns to her hometown after several years. She has been away ever since the tragic events surrounding her abusive older husband. While in town...

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

A husband runs a jewelry store, supported by his serious and chaste wife. It was an ordinary and peaceful marriage. One day, the husband was...

Strife between competing lumber mills.

Japanese crime film

This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of murderous intent, and the efforts of a journalist...

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...

1962 Japanese movie

The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town...

A 1970 crime film.