Kumeko Urabe Movies

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

1962 Japanese movie

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

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

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...

Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue is a 1927 black and white Japanese silent film directed by Tomiyasu Ikeda.[1] This comedy film showcases the comic...

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

1962 Japanese movie

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.