Hiroshi Kondō Movies

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

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...

Nineteen-year-old Fukiko Kuwano lives with her father, who is nearing retirement, her mother, and her younger brother. After colliding with a...

This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

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 action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original...

Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity.

Film by Buichi Saitô

Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

1962 Japanese movie

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.