Kumeko Urabe Movies

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Japanese comedy film.

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

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.

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...

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

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

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

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

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house. Considered a lost film.

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

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been...

Japanese war film.

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

A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a volleyball tournament as long-shot underdogs.