Tsuneo Kobayashi (Director)
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Works
Montana Jones
The series takes place in the 1930s and is about the adventures of Montana Jones, who goes treasure hunting with his cousin Alfred Jones and the beautiful reporter Melissa Thorn. They visit real locations and cities like the Pyramids of Giza, the Taj Mahal, Istanbul or Easter Island. Frequently they cross paths with Lord Zero - a rich, eccentric art lover and master thief.
Release Date1994-04-02
DepartmentWriting
JobStoryboard
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
Super GALS!
Sporting designer clothes, make-up, and nails, Ran Kotobuki is the very picture of a trendy, young Shibuya girl, but don't let that fool you. This girl comes from a family of cops, and she’s ready to lay you out flat if you even think about causing trouble in her town! At least, she will... when she’s not distracted with karaoke, shopping, and dodging her homework. Join Ran and her friends as they defend the streets of Shibuya and attempt to shop their way into the history books as the most famous Gals ever!
Release Date2001-04-01
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count4
Operation: Mystery
The Science Research Institute (SRI) investigates assorted strange phenomenon in Japan.
Release Date1968-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
Jet Air Base 101
The first batch of flight control officer candidates, full of yearning for the sky, are assembled at the 101st Air Regiment base. Nakata, Sato, and the other cadets undergo intensive training under Captain Kotani, a famous pilot, but gradually begin to resent his strict leadership. A youthful story that vividly portrays the young pilots of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force who place their hopes in the sky. Japan's first full-length film about jet aviation, it was shot on location at the Hamamatsu Air Self-Defense Force Base over an extended period of time, with dozens of jets being mobilized for the filming.
Release Date1957-12-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Schoolgirl Records
A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
Release Date1941-08-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Points and Lines
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide.
Release Date1958-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Murder on The Last Train
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
Release Date1955-06-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Element of Surprise
1963 Toei war / action film.
Release Date1963-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Moonlight Mask
First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
Release Date1958-07-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
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).
Release Date1964-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush
An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.
Release Date1960-07-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Mid-August Commotion
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.
Release Date1962-08-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Army Intelligence
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
Release Date1968-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Jinsei Gekijo: dai ichi bu
Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.
Release Date1952-11-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Homicide
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26 and the execution of young officers.
Release Date1964-06-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
Release Date1956-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
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...
Release Date1956-04-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Escape
Film about the 2-26 Incident.
Release Date1962-03-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Playgirl
Playgirl is a Japanese television action/drama series which ran from 1969 to 1976 over a total of 276 episodes. It was conceived in the Spy-Fi genre.
Release Date1969-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Senka o koete
Release Date1950-09-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Eyes of Mother and Daughter
Japanese drama film.
Release Date1959-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Excursion to Treasure Isle
The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant fought against evil in olden times.
Release Date1956-07-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
First film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
Release Date1956-11-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters
Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
Release Date1958-08-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
Release Date1956-11-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Deep Blue Sea
To fulfill a friend’s dying wish, a young sailor Kenji takes on the task of delivering an heirloom to his friend’s daughter, Harumi, who has been adopted by another family. When he arrives, Kenji soon discovers that Harumi and her adopted family are the targets of an evil gang boss. In an attempt to help them, he decides to take matters into his own hands.
Release Date1957-07-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Ghost of the One Eyed Man
Japanese horror film directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi.
Release Date1965-09-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity
An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.
Release Date1960-01-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Boy Detectives Club – The Invisible Fiend
Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
Release Date1958-02-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Boy Detectives Club – The No-Headed Man
Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
Release Date1958-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
若い涙を吹きとばせ
1961 Japanese movie
Release Date1961-03-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
恐怖の空中殺人
Release Date1956-12-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Four Hours of Terror
Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.
Release Date1959-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3