Nenji Kobayashi Movies

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a...

Detective Hayata's friend is killed by criminals. In order to find the murder, Hayata infiltrate a gang, with the aim of getting closer to the big...

Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but...

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...

The Marutoku unit reopens a controversial past accident while probing a fresh insurance claim. As links emerge between victims and insiders, chief...

Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo,...

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a fisherman in Kumamoto, a...

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be is an acquaintance who tries to...

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his...

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...

A crime film released in 1965

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...

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland...