Wataru Kobayashi Movies

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

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...

Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next...

Japanese crime film

The 1st movie in the Kobushidake denki series.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

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

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...

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

Strife between competing lumber mills.

1962 Japanese movie

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...