Keiju Kobayashi Movies

Sanjuro

82/100

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Godzilla 1985

62/100

Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.

Samurai Assassin

76/100

February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ... See full summary »

Tree Without Leaves

83/100

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

Tidal Wave

55/100

Racked by earthquakes and volcanos, Japan is slowly sinking into the sea. A race against time and tide begins as Americans and the Japanese work together to salvage some fraction of the ... See full summary »

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

71/100

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant ... See full summary »

The Stranger Within a Woman

75/100

Two friends meet in a bar. Later that night, one friend's flirtatious wife is reportedly in an accident. The other friend doesn't feel well. What's come over him?

Kamikaze Okinawa Zero

71/100

Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War II's Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.

Bakumatsu

63/100

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was ... See full summary »

Happiness of Us Alone

84/100

Nijiotoko

57/100

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, ... See full summary »

Topo Gigio and the Missile War

63/100

Love and Separation in Sri Lanka

53/100

The Militarists

69/100

Reporter Goro Arai covers the war for a Japanese newspaper. He follows the activities of Japan's top military leader, Hideki Tojo, and comes to view Tojo as a dangerous military tyrant. But... See full summary »

Yawara!

62/100

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

72/100

A Wife's Heart

72/100

Beast Alley

49/100

Take the 'A' Train, Someday

85/100

Kubi

74/100

The Happy Pilgrimage

71/100

Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, presumably as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their wives for a little while. As they travel, they are ... See full summary »

White Love

69/100

A pimp has an adulterous affair with a Japanese girl who studies flamenco dancing.

Sararîman Chûshingura

75/100

Zoku sararîman Chûshingura

64/100

Shiro to kuro

66/100