Kumeko Urabe Movies

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

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the...

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

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.

1954 Japanese movie

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

Japanese comedy film.

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

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is...

Romantic comedy about a love triangle between two girls who fall in love with a reliable young doctor.

Erotic drama.

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an...