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Tag Archives: Keiju Kobayashi
The Black Book / Kuroi gashû: Aru sarariman no shôgen (1960) Hiromichi Horikawa, Keiju Kobayashi, Chisako Hara, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Crime, Drama
A forty-year-old office worker, Ishino get good income, nice family and a love affair with girl co-worker. Read More »
Sanjuro (1962) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle Read More »
Onna no naka ni iru tanin / The Stranger Within a Woman (1966) Mikio Naruse, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Mitsuko Kusabue
Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) Read More »
Beast Alley / Kemonomichi (1965) Eizô Sugawa, Junko Ikeuchi
Tamiko works as a live-in maid in a modest ryokan, while her bed-ridden husband, Kanji Read More »
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman / Eburi manshi no yûga-na seikatsu (1963) Kihachi Okamoto, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Eijirô Tôno
This comedy portrays the everyday life of an ordinary salary-man who uses himself as a model to write a novella. Read More »
A Wife’s Heart / Tsuma no kokoro (1956) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. Read More »
Happiness of Us Alone AKA Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku (1961) Zenzô Matsuyama, Hideko Takamine, Keiju Kobayashi, Izumi Hara
Tragic story of a deaf-mute(Takamine) who marries another deaf-mute(Kobayashi) she at a school for the deaf. Read More »
Rainbow Man (1949) Kiyohiko Ushihara, Keiju Kobayashi, Teruko Akatsuki, Katsuko Wakasugi
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder Read More »
The Battle of Okinawa (1971) Kihachi Okamoto, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Tetsurô Tanba, Drama, War
It is spring, 1945. The war is going badly for the Empire of Japan. Outnumbered and outgunned, the soldiers of the Empire are being forced back, island by island, towards the homeland.
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