Kumeko Urabe Movies

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...

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

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

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...

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter...

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

Japanese comedy film.

Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.

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

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

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...

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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