Katsuhiko Kobayashi Movies

The eighteenth 'Road to the Don' film.

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.

Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.

Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double...

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...

The seventeenth 'Road to the Don' film.

1958 Japanese movie

The third 'Road to the Don' film.

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

The nineteenth 'Road to the Don' film.

During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When...

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase....

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to...