Kumeko Urabe Movies

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931. Considered a lost film.

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

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit...

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

A love melodrama.

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

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

1954 Japanese movie