Kumeko Urabe Movies

War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly...

The film depicts the life of a man who works at a crematorium he inherited from his father. An adaptation of Yoshiko Shigekane's novel Smoke of...

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...

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...

Filmed on location in the Mongolian plains.

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)

Inspired by the issue of rescuing former Japanese soldiers reportedly still surviving on Lubang Island.

Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche,...

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding...

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

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...

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of...