Kumeko Urabe Movies

1954 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

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

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

1960 Toei film.

Japanese war film.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

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

An orphan Mihato Mari works as a secretary at a spinning factory.

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

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