Kumeko Urabe Movies

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keizō Kawasaki

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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...

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Cast: Gorō Kawabe

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Michiko Saga

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ken Uehara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shima Iwashita

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Chikage Awashima

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

1954 Japanese movie

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Cast: Nobuko Otowa

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

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Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war.

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Cast: Tatsuya Ishiguro

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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Cast: Mako Midori

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

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Cast: Yukie Kagawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Noriko Arita

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Saga

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Shimizu

Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fumiko Yamaji

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kaichi Yamamoto

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamotsu Hayakawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ineko Arima

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

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...

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Cast: Yōko Umemura

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

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Cast: Teruyo Asagumo

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Directed by Minoru Murata.

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Cast: Kumeko Urabe

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shima Iwashita

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

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...

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Cast: Kenji Sugawara

Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

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Cast: Keiji Sada

Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Mamoru Hirayama, the sales manager of Clover Shoji, a women's underwear manufacturer, was selected by President Usui to be the manager of the foreign...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka

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...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

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Cast: Mariko Okada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tamu Masuda

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Cast: Takako Irie

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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Cast: Takako Irie

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jun Usami

Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. One day Shino came to like a thief (Yoshioka) who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuki Jōno

1945 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jun Usami

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nijiko Kiyokawa

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūko Mochizuki

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Susumu Fujita

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

A youthful film filled with youth and passion, set against the backdrop of the ocean and filled with admiration for a dynamic young man and the heart...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

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,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yasuko Tomita

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jitsuko Yoshimura

When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Negami

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.

Genre: Music

Cast: Yukio Hashi

Romantic comedy about a love triangle between two girls who fall in love with a reliable young doctor.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yumiko Miyagino

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

A story about club hostesses in Osaka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shizuko Mori

In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takako Irie

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

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Cast: Junko Natsu

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931

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Cast: Yōko Umemura

Erotic drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Yanami

Japanese comedy film.

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Cast: Frankie Sakai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ranko Hanai

One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

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...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danielle Darrieux

An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kamatari Fujiwara

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

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Cast: Aiko Mimasu

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

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Nakata

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A love melodrama.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Junko Kano

Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

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...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

Genre: War

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Isamu Nagato

An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Den Obinata

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōichi Katsuragi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasuko Kawakami

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Genre: War

Cast: Masao Wakahara

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nao Abe

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aiko Mimasu

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenji Sugawara

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

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Cast: Mako Midori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Action

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

1960 Toei film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isao Kimura