Kumeko Urabe Movies

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a volleyball tournament as long-shot underdogs.

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...

Japanese comedy film.

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

Romantic comedy about a love triangle between two girls who fall in love with a reliable young doctor.

The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes.

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named...