Kumeko Urabe Movies

Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole...

1963 Japanese movie

Directed by Minoru Murata.

1962 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

A sweet and melancholy melodrama set against the backdrop of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea, in which a pair of twin sisters, one a young lady of high...

1945 Japanese movie

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...

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

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

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

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

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...

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

A satirical comedy set in Tokyo's new landmark food center in Yurakucho.