Movies: Makoto Kobori

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life....

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The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye....

1954 Japanese movie...

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film....

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The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young, 16-17 year old sons of Aizu samurai....

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for...

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel....

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Japanese film....

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city....

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Japanese noir....

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province....

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Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi....

1947 Japanese movie...

Kotobuki-za is a story of the Naniwa-bushi singer Baichuken Tsurumaru....