Wataru Kobayashi Movies

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...

Japanese crime film

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...

1962 Japanese movie

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

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...

Strife between competing lumber mills.

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

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

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...

A 1970 crime film.

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...