Kumeko Urabe Movies

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

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.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

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

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...

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...

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

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

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...

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

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...

Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips...