Kumeko Urabe Movies

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...

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding...

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

1962 Japanese movie

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.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".

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 story about club hostesses in Osaka.

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

1945 Japanese movie

Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.