The best Nenji Kobayashi’s romance movies

Nenji Kobayashi

Nenji Kobayashi

07/02/1943 (81 años)
Today we present the best Nenji Kobayashi’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Nenji Kobayashi’s movies.

The Twilight Samurai

The Twilight Samurai
8.1/10
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?

Love and Honor

Love and Honor
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/12/2006
  • Character: Sakunosuke Higuchi
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

It All Began When I Met You

It All Began When I Met You
6/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 22/11/2013
  • Character: Taizou
Six love stories following the love lives of ten different people.

The Hidden Blade

The Hidden Blade
7.7/10
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.

Miss Lonely

Miss Lonely
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/04/1985
  • Character: Douryou Inoue
A lonely high schooler suddenly meets the love of his life out of thin air. Is she a real person or a figment of his imagination?

Early Spring Story

Early Spring Story
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/09/1985
  • Character: Coffee shop owner
A university student Hitomi falls in love with a middle-aged man Okawa, who was the lover of her deceased mother. Hitomi's feelings shift back and forth as she is not sure whether it is true love or just a realization of her mother's romantic dream...

Labyrinth of Cinema

Labyrinth of Cinema
6.7/10
The story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japan’s feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.

His Motorbike, Her Island

His Motorbike, Her Island
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 26/04/1986
  • Character: News reporter
After a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a carefree girl Miyo, after teaching her to ride. When Miyo proves herself a biker prodigy Ko begins to fear that she is destined to crash.

Virgin Road

Virgin Road
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 21/07/1989
Based on the comic book by Tatsuo Kanai

A Desirable Marriage

A Desirable Marriage
5.7/10
A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter over her marriage and humorous depictions of the people around them. When Mieko's husband passes away, she hopes to arrange a good marriage for her daughter Non, but things don't go as planned when Non reveals there's already a love interest in her life.

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