Kumeko Urabe Movies

The innocent devotion of a woman eagerly awaiting her lover’s return from the war touches people’s hearts.

A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).

1954 Japanese movie

Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying...

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

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)

1962 Japanese movie

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

A man who hunts for women and sells them to bars and cabarets. This film depicts the lives of men and women who breathe the dark side of the city 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...

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

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...

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...