Akira Kobayashi Movies

Two lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when pursued by the angry gang. They eventually meet again...

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...

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

As a foreign gambling ring tries to take over the Japanese underworld, Himuro the ace gambler must face their leader - and his dangerous...

In the third movie of the Gambler series, the Wandering Gambler is defeated by a cheat that he cannot expose and his dice hand is crushed. Now the...

Goro Akitsu is a man playing poker in a bar in the port of Yokohama. He is a drifter from Kobe, Japan, who has been helping people who have left the...

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 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...

Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months...

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion...

Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete recovery of his boss. However, three rival bosses,...

1957 Japanese movie

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe...

1965 Japanese movie

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

This coming-of-age drama depicts Ozaki, Takei, Minami, and Onoki, four men trained in the rugby club and brimming with intelligence and a sense of...