Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.