Kumeko Urabe Movies

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a...

1962 Japanese movie

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

A story about club hostesses in Osaka.

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...

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

1954 Japanese movie

A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).

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

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

1962 Japanese movie

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is...

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit...