Kumeko Urabe Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

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

A love melodrama.

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...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

1960 Toei film.