Kotoe Hatsui Movies

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

1961 Japanese movie

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...

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

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...

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...

In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza way, are straightforward and justice-loving...

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...

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu

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....

1962 Japanese movie

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

Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings....

1962 Japanese movie

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.

The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal...

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.