Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a...

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

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...

A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an...

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...