Nobuo Kawakami Movies

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.

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...

1961 Japanese movie

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

1961 Japanese movie

Motomu Ida movie

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

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...

Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and...

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.

Japanese comedy film.

1962 Japanese movie

A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nikaido, the hero of Kamideki, challenges the...