Masaki Kobayashi Movies

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

In this 1993 video interview, filmed for the Directors Guild of Japan at Tokyo’s Haiyuza Theatre, director Masaki Kobayashi talks to fellow...

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...

One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths....

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

Lost film, directed by Tomu Uchida. This film is a very funny comedy that makes fun of the moral code of the samurai Bushido, which has become...

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.