Masaki Kobayashi Movies

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

During WWII, Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son has fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming.

A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.

A look at the trial of Japanese militarists accused of war crimes; from the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal (May...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

In this 1993 video interview, filmed for the Directors Guild of Japan at Tokyo’s Haiyuza Theatre, director Masaki Kobayashi talks to fellow...

A rivalry sparks between two teenage brothers when they discover the attraction of girls.