Kumeko Urabe Movies

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

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

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...

Ittōsai, who trained in the Itto-ryu style deep in the mountains of Nara, joins a professional baseball team.

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

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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...

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

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

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...

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...

In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of...

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...