Movies: Nenji Kobayashi

  • 1980
    The Revolt

    The Revolt (1980)

    The Revolt

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    When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miyagi, tries to honor his dying wish to rescue his sister. Upon finding Kaoru at a party working as a ...

    The Revolt
  • 2013
    Tokyo Family

    Tokyo Family (2013)

    Tokyo Family

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    An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved....

    Tokyo Family
  • 1983
    The Yoshida School

    The Yoshida School (1983)

    The Yoshida School

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    Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political ...

    The Yoshida School
  • 2016
    What a Wonderful Family!

    What a Wonderful Family! (2016)

    What a Wonderful Family!

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    A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos....

    What a Wonderful Family!
  • 2007
    Tsubaki Sanjuro

    Tsubaki Sanjuro (2007)

    Tsubaki Sanjuro

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    "Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He uses them to settle the trouble and uses them good!...

    Tsubaki Sanjuro
  • 1977
    Hokuriku Proxy War

    Hokuriku Proxy War (1977)

    Hokuriku Proxy War

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    In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada,...

    Hokuriku Proxy War
  • 2004
    Café Lumière

    Café Lumière (2004)

    Café Lumière

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    In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit ...

    Café Lumière
  • 1986
    His Motorbike, Her Island

    His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)

    His Motorbike, Her Island

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    After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash....

    His Motorbike, Her Island
  • 1976
    Karate Warriors

    Karate Warriors (1976)

    Karate Warriors

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    Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs....

    Karate Warriors
  • 2017
    What a Wonderful Family! 2

    What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)

    What a Wonderful Family! 2

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    Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin ...

    What a Wonderful Family! 2
  • 1983
    The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

    The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor (1983)

    The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

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    A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations....

    The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
  • 1976
    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss (1976)

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

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    The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars....

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
  • 1975
    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss (1975)

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

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    The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are batt...

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
  • 1972
    Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

    Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)

    Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

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    A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years ...

    Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
  • 1972
    Street Mobster

    Street Mobster (1972)

    Street Mobster

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    After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on....

    Street Mobster
  • 2015
    Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

    Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (2015)

    Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

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    Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji (Kazunari Ninomiya) appears in front of her and they r...

    Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
  • 2004
    The Hidden Blade

    The Hidden Blade (2004)

    The Hidden Blade

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    Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest...

    The Hidden Blade
  • 1982
    Farewell to the Land

    Farewell to the Land (1982)

    Farewell to the Land

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    Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother wh...

    Farewell to the Land
  • 2014
    The Little House

    The Little House (2014)

    The Little House

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    Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a...

    The Little House
  • 1973
    The Ando Gang Documentary Film

    The Ando Gang Documentary Film (1973)

    The Ando Gang Documentary Film

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    This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi....

    The Ando Gang Documentary Film