Kumeko Urabe Movies

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

Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. The two arrange to meet at a hot spring, but...

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...

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

A love melodrama.

The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes.

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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

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

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying...

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa