Kumeko Urabe Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Based on the famous novel by Junichiro Tanizaki, this is a story of the four sisters of the ancient and reputable Makioka family of Osaka.

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...

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.

1963 Japanese movie

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...

A passionate, righteous journalist, burning with indignation, draws his gun of justice in response to the death of his fellow photographer.

A youth film set in a high school.

A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.

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

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...

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

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...