Kumeko Urabe Movies

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.

A film adaptation of Nobuko Yoshiya’s popular novel.

1960 Toei film.

A pure love story between a former member of the imperial family who has been demoted to commoner status and a young girl.

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...

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

A film depicting the duties of a detective and the anguish of human compassion.

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

Teppei Omori is a man of extraordinary virility, with 21 mistresses, over 30 children, and more than 1,100 women he has had relations with. Teppei's...

A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.

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

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...

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...

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

A story depicting the true nature of a vulnerable woman who abandons love, severs the bond between father and daughter, and challenges the very...