Kotoe Hatsui Movies

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.

The Gotokuji family has a colossal amount of money. Yuri is a paid housekeeper and sent to this family. While working at the house, she finds a new...

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel...

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with his classmate Akira, alone and undisturbed. Noriko...

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...

Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu

1962 Japanese movie

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each other and are after her fortune. And then,...

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.