Kumeko Urabe Movies

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

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. One day Shino came to like a thief (Yoshioka) who...

Japanese comedy film.

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...

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...

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

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

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...

1945 Japanese movie

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

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...

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...

1963 Japanese movie