Wataru Kobayashi Movies

1962 Japanese movie

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...

Strife between competing lumber mills.

1962 Japanese movie

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and...

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and...

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Japanese crime film

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

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...

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...

This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of murderous intent, and the efforts of a journalist...