Kumeko Urabe Movies

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

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...

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

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

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...

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

1962 Japanese movie

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?