Kumeko Urabe Movies

Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without...

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...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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 pure love story between a former member of the imperial family who has been demoted to commoner status and a young girl.

A film depicting the duties of a detective and the anguish of human compassion.

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law—descend into...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

American Sergeant falls in love with a Japanese woman.

A prostitute? A poisonous woman? A virgin widow writhing in agony night after night, tormented by her first misstep.