Kaoru Kobayashi Movies

A TV movie by Kon Ichikawa, remaking of Ten Dark Women (1961)

Kaoru Kobayashi stars as a man tasked with saving a failing company. Instead of harsh tactics, he lifts the workers’ spirits through music.

Based on the novel of the same name by Shizuka Ijûin. Played as a double feature with Crepe (1993).

The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.

Former punk rocker Jonen, now a Buddhist priest, seems to have lost the meaning of his life. His manic depression handicaps him further. Music seems...