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...

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into...

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

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

A youth film set in a high school.

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

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...

A cake shop apprentice falls in love with a female student from a wealthy family.