Tsuneo Kobayashi — Director (18)
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Three-Headed Tower (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
三つ首塔
director: Tsuneo Kobayashi / Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Hizuru Takachiho …
other title: 三つ首塔 / Three Headed Tower
Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never heard of. The lawyers haven't located Shunsaku yet, allowing Otone to think about whether she accepts the conditions of the will. One month later after, Takato Shunsaku is found. Murdered. At the birthday party of Otone's uncle. With Shunsaku dead and thus making it impossible for Otone to marry him, the inheritence is to split amongst all (living) family members. And yes, as always, that means that the potential successors get killed off one by one. But Kosuke Kindaichi is on the trail...
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Two Lives, Two Yakuza (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
竜虎一代
director: Tsuneo Kobayashi actor: Koji Tsuruta / Sumiko Fuji …
other title: 竜虎一代 / Ryūko ichidai
An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ruthless yakuza gang is also trying to get their share of the project and attempts to sabotage the work. After the old man dies, his son (Sonny Chiba) and daughter (Junko Fuji) try to complete the project. Tsuruta joins them while also falling in love with a local woman working in a bar (after all, Tsuruta always was more of a lover than his stoic colleague Takakura).
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Mid-August Commotion (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
八月十五日の動乱
director: Tsuneo Kobayashi actor: Koji Tsuruta / Shinjirō Ehara …
other title: 八月十五日の動乱
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.