Kumeko Urabe Movies

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...

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...

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

Shino, a resilient young woman sold into prostitution must navigate the gritty realities of the red-light district to survive. Within the confines of...

A dispute over the estate of a wealthy family’s patriarch erupts between the son’s widow and her child on one side, and the...

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

1962 Japanese movie

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama

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

The film adaptation of Yuzo Yamamoto's novel tells the story of the difficult fate of a single mother in pre-war Japan.

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

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

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...

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...

Directed by Minoru Murata.

Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage....