Kumeko Urabe Movies

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

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

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

The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and...

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.

1962 Japanese movie

The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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

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...

1960 Toei film.

1962 Japanese movie

Directed by Minoru Murata.

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named...

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...