The Rambler Goes North
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 hero,...
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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior...
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Beyond the Green Hills
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first...
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Four Young Sisters
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a...
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The Incorrigible
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
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Eddy Currents of Life
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home...
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Teenage Yakuza
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
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Maiko's Visit to Tokyo
A youth drama about a sincere and pretty young maiko who comes to Tokyo for the first time in her life and fills her little heart with the joys and...
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Song of Farewell
After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...
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The School Cap
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the...
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