Kotoe Hatsui Movies

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a...

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...

1962 Japanese movie

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.

1961 Japanese movie

A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.

In the Okawa household, Miharu is the breadwinner, while her husband, Soma, handles the domestic chores. One day, a poor student couple moves into...

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...

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...

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu

Two young lovers stake their lives on passion. Yet a cruel and capricious fate cruelly extinguishes the blazing flame of their love.

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

1962 Japanese movie

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...

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...

This title was completed in 1984 and opened in 2014.

1962 Japanese movie

In the early Shōwa era, university student Gōji Murata boards with the Itō family, old friends of his late father. One day, the...

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