Kotoe Hatsui Movies

1962 Japanese movie

In the Okawa household, Miharu is the breadwinner, while her husband, Soma, handles the domestic chores. One day, a poor student couple moves into...

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

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

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu

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...

Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next...

At a certain high school in Karuizawa, students relied on ordinary local trains for their commute, but with only seven trains running per day,...

A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko...

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 dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by...

1962 Japanese movie

Nineteen-year-old Fukiko Kuwano lives with her father, who is nearing retirement, her mother, and her younger brother. After colliding with a...

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

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...

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.