Kumeko Urabe Movies

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

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

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...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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

Japanese comedy film.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

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...

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without...

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...

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

1945 Japanese movie

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

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