Kumeko Urabe Movies

1963 Japanese movie

Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.

1962 Japanese movie

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...

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

1945 Japanese movie

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

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

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...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Japanese war film.

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

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the...