Akira Kobayashi Movies

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...

Baseball player Takatsuka is murdered mid-game in front of a large crowd. The autopsy reveals that he has been killed by a needle coated with a...

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

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....

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during...

Japanese crime film

Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's...

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...

Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the...

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the fifth in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which...

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity...

Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together with Joe Shishido, he stars in a film about the...

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

Japanese crime film

The "Ginza Whirlwind" (Akira Kobayahsi) smashes a counterfeiting ring. Second in the "Ginza Whirlwind" series.

In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together...