Biography: Kumeko Urabe (Japanese: 浦辺粂子), born Kimura Kume ((木村 くめ)), (October 5, 1902 – October 26, 1989) was a Japanese movie actress, one of the first in the country. She worked on stage and in film and television. Urabe was born in a rural part of the Shizuoka Prefecture. She lived in several homes while growing up, as she relocated with her father, a Buddhist priest, among the temples to which he was assigned. Urabe completed her education in Numazu, and left school in 1919 to join a theatre company, touring under various stage names as an actor and dancer. In 1923, Urabe auditioned at the film studio Nikkatsu, and adopted the name Kumeko Urabe, by which she was known for the rest of her life. She appeared in her first film the following year, and continued to act until 1987. She worked with such directors as Kenji Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse, and performed in over 320 films, including Ikiru, Older Brother, Younger Sister, Portrait of Madame Yuki, She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum, and Street of Shame. She also starred in television dramas, including thirteen episodes of Toshiba Sunday Theatre between 1958 and 1980. In the following decade, she carved a niche as a Grandma idol, until her death in 1989.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 05, 1902
Deathday: October 26, 1989
Popularity:
1956-01-29
Overview: A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-29
Popularity:
1987-08-01
Overview: The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-01
Popularity:
1960-07-10
Overview: The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and emotional scars he now carries with him, Yosaburo falls for a young noblewoman. The rest of the film follows the two as they fend off attacks from gangs and the police.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-10
Popularity:
1966-06-19
Overview:
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-19
Popularity:
1962-05-12
Overview: The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit melody of Ueki etc. [Selection of Actors and Directors].
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-12
Popularity:
1962-02-17
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-17
Popularity:
1962-02-21
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-21
Popularity:
1927-12-30
Overview: Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue is a 1927 black and white Japanese silent film directed by Tomiyasu Ikeda.[1] This comedy film showcases the comic talent of Denjiro Okochi, which contrasts markedly with his heroic performance in Oatsurae Jirokichi Koshi. The humorous exchanges with Goro Kawabe, his senior at Nikkatsu, can be priceless, with the expressions and movements of the two goofy characters making for pure, hilarious slapstick comedy. A 15-minute remnant of the film was released on DVD by Digital Meme with benshi accompaniment by Midori Sawato and Ryubi Kato.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1927-12-30
Popularity:
1956-03-18
Overview: The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-18
Popularity:
1962-03-11
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-11
Popularity:
1960-04-27
Overview: After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title fight, but his comrade Hata (Kojiro Hongo) is not happy with this choice, and so he moves to the gym run by the criminal businessman Goda (Toru Abe) and burning desire to beat Yamanaka.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-27
Popularity:
1951-12-28
Overview: Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-28
Popularity:
1962-03-18
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-18
Popularity:
1950-03-07
Overview: A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-03-07
Popularity:
1950-11-04
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-11-04
Popularity:
1960-05-18
Overview: 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 actors of the Japanese classical theater No, friendship, hatred and love…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-18
Popularity:
1956-10-01
Overview: 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 melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-01
Popularity:
1959-11-17
Overview: When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences. A remake of Ozu's own silent film The Story of Floating Weeds (1934).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-17
Popularity:
1962-12-23
Overview: Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-23
Popularity:
1965-10-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
Popularity:
1954-01-15
Overview: 1954 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-15
Popularity:
1931-10-01
Overview: Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-10-01
Popularity:
1948-05-26
Overview: In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-05-26
Popularity:
1946-05-23
Overview: The romantic struggles of three close friends who came back from the war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-05-23
Popularity:
1966-03-05
Overview: Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-05
Popularity:
1964-07-11
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-11
Popularity:
1969-03-30
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-30
Popularity:
1962-04-06
Overview: Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-06
Popularity:
1964-01-15
Overview: War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
Popularity:
1955-11-29
Overview: On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-11-29
Popularity:
1953-09-15
Overview: A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-09-15
Popularity:
1962-11-08
Overview: The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-08
Popularity:
1938-10-06
Overview: A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-10-06
Popularity:
1980-09-20
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-09-20
Popularity:
1962-11-18
Overview: The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-18
Popularity:
1937-06-17
Overview: A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-06-17
Popularity:
1951-09-21
Overview: Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Koji Shima. The movie is based on Das doppelte Lottchen, a novel later adapted as The Parent Trap.
Genres: Comedy Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-21
Popularity:
1962-07-01
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
Popularity:
1924-03-14
Overview: When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1924-03-14
Popularity:
1963-09-11
Overview: Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngsters, and he soon becomes their none-too-successful warden. At work the boys are disciplined, as soon as they return to their dormitory however they turn into an unmanageable mob.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-11
Popularity:
1954-06-27
Overview: Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-27
Popularity:
1965-12-04
Overview:
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-04
Popularity:
1952-05-22
Overview: Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-22
Popularity:
1959-09-24
Overview: Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-24
Popularity:
1956-11-21
Overview: In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confronts the professor about his extramarital affair, and Tsuruko, an inevitable witness to the confrontation, leaves the professor the following morning. Over the next decade, whenever he visits the mountain cabin every autumn equinox, the memory of Tsuruko will forever haunt Kazuhiko...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-21
Popularity:
1930-07-01
Overview: Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1930-07-01
Popularity:
1943-11-11
Overview: Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-11-11
Popularity:
1947-03-04
Overview: A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-03-04
Popularity:
1924-06-29
Overview: Directed by Minoru Murata.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1924-06-29
Popularity:
1962-09-01
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-01
Popularity:
1952-04-24
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-24
Popularity:
1955-10-05
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-05
Popularity:
1958-03-17
Overview: 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 of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-17
Popularity:
1958-07-20
Overview: 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 being released from prison, where he was imprisoned on charges of causing bodily harm. He meets his younger brother Fumio, who is going to become a boxer and dreams of owning his own car repair shop. Goro tries to help Fumio, but is refused. At this time, the boss of the underworld, whom Goro met in prison, is released, and this escalates into a confrontation involving Goro and Fumio.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-20
Popularity:
1956-08-21
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-21
Popularity:
1972-12-09
Overview: Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garners popularity in the slums due to her compassionate care for children. In an attempt to secure a stable future for their child, she enters into marriage with Tsutomu Yamazaki, who struggles with a stutter. Unfortunately, their union is cut short by the untimely death of Tsutomu Yamazaki in an accident.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-09
Popularity:
1970-12-31
Overview: Mamoru Hirayama, the sales manager of Clover Shoji, a women's underwear manufacturer, was selected by President Usui to be the manager of the foreign affairs section newly established in the sales department. Masaaki Sakata, Yasushi Inoda, Osamu Yamabe, and Jiro Oi were assigned to this foreign affairs section. Hirayama, a former soldier, is suddenly enthusiastic when the company orders him to join the Self-Defense Forces. One day, in the library where the records of the former army are displayed, Hirayama recalls his memories of that time. It turned out that the bundle of bills that the captain had made a mess of was packed in a box and buried somewhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-31
Popularity:
1953-06-03
Overview: This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasegawa Kuzuo who went on to become familiar among Ichikawa Kon fans as Yukinojo in An Actor's Revenge, which was also co-written by Ito, adding to the relatedness of An Heir's Place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-03
Popularity:
1955-06-21
Overview: Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-21
Popularity:
1962-12-30
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-30
Popularity:
1934-03-29
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-03-29
Popularity:
1952-10-09
Overview: Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-09
Popularity:
1954-03-13
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-13
Popularity:
1931-10-30
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-10-30
Popularity:
1945-07-26
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-07-26
Popularity:
1966-02-17
Overview: Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. One day Shino came to like a thief (Yoshioka) who came as a customer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-17
Popularity:
1952-10-09
Overview: The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-09
Popularity:
1951-11-23
Overview: Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-23
Popularity:
1953-08-19
Overview: The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family. The ill-tempered eldest brother Inokichi decides to take on the role of disciplinarian, with harrowing results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-19
Popularity:
1949-08-16
Overview: Shizuko Kasagi and Hideko Takamine star as young women who try to raise money for a needy old friend by becoming wandering singers who work for tips in Tokyo's Ginza nightlife district.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-08-16
Popularity:
1953-03-05
Overview: Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-05
Popularity:
1966-09-17
Overview: Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-17
Popularity:
1945-12-27
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-12-27
Popularity:
1946-06-13
Overview: 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 to the govt. The next day, the jewel disappears. Investigator Yamazaki investigates...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-06-13
Popularity:
1954-11-23
Overview: This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-23
Popularity:
1959-01-14
Overview: 1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-14
Popularity:
1950-06-27
Overview: A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-27
Popularity:
1948-05-26
Overview: In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea, and Kumiko, Fusako's sister-in-law, descend into prostitution, all for their individual reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-05-26
Popularity:
1953-06-15
Overview: 1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-06-15
Popularity:
1959-02-11
Overview: A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-11
Popularity:
1954-07-13
Overview: Japanese war film.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-13
Popularity:
1957-03-26
Overview: Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-26
Popularity:
1956-10-10
Overview: A youthful film filled with youth and passion, set against the backdrop of the ocean and filled with admiration for a dynamic young man and the heart of a girl whose eyes are filled with pure love!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-10
Popularity:
1958-01-15
Overview: Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-15
Popularity:
1985-04-12
Overview: Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his psyche, or is she real?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-12
Popularity:
1965-10-30
Overview: 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 her innocence and illusions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-30
Popularity:
1966-04-16
Overview: When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-16
Popularity:
1954-03-21
Overview: Tokyo, 1890. Through avarice, a series of misunderstandings, and failures of courage, the engagement of Kan-ichi (a student) and Miya (the daughter of Kan-ichi's debtor) is canceled to enable Miya to marry Tomiyama, a wealthy banker's son. In bitter despair, Kan-ichi breaks with his friends, drops his studies, and declares he has ceased to be human. He apprentices to a money-lender, and he's soon ruthless and wealthy. Several years later, Miya's in misery, her husband mistreats her. She goes to Kan-ichi to beg forgiveness; he pushes her away. He's now pursued by Akagashi, herself a cold-hearted loan shark. Can anything free Kan-ichi's hard heart from the golden demon
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-21
Popularity:
1962-03-25
Overview: Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Eriko" by Yukio Hashi.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
Popularity:
1952-12-17
Overview: Romantic comedy about a love triangle between two girls who fall in love with a reliable young doctor.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-12-17
Popularity:
1960-08-24
Overview: 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 story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-24
Popularity:
1951-12-07
Overview: 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 husband he is frequently drawn to taverns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-07
Popularity:
1957-09-01
Overview: A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-01
Popularity:
1969-08-27
Overview: A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-27
Popularity:
1967-11-18
Overview: A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-18
Popularity:
1933-08-31
Overview: A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-08-31
Popularity:
1964-02-08
Overview: 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 of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-08
Popularity:
1961-11-22
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
Popularity:
1949-10-11
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-10-11
Popularity:
1950-10-21
Overview: A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-21
Popularity:
1957-04-30
Overview: It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the family's son Yukio, now dying of consumption. He's tended by his sister Yuko who's angry at Komako for abandoning her brother. Shimamura returns to Tokyo but promises he will be back soon. In anticipation of his return, Komako breaks with her patron and her family loses their home. Complications arise when Shimamura doesn't come back as promised. Then Komako discovers that he and Yuko knew each other in Tokyo. Can Komako escape destiny?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
Popularity:
1973-09-29
Overview: When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-29
Popularity:
1955-04-19
Overview: Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-19
Popularity:
1975-05-24
Overview: In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts the life and career of his friend and mentor Mizoguchi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-24
Popularity:
1971-01-27
Overview: The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-27
Popularity:
1931-06-12
Overview: Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-06-12
Popularity:
1971-06-23
Overview: Erotic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-23
Popularity:
1968-11-09
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-09
Popularity:
1950-05-17
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-05-17
Popularity:
1961-08-13
Overview: One night, three wives, Matsuyo, Keiko and Mari, receive a mysterious telephone call. The voice tells them that she has their husbands with her and invites them to " P " Hotel to see for themselves. They have been married for many years and are bored with their husbands, and are about to secretly carry on affairs with the other's mates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-13
Popularity:
1959-10-30
Overview: The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-30
Popularity:
1957-02-06
Overview: Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named Noriko. But Françoise Fabre, a French journalist and Pierre's former lover, contacts him while visiting the Land of the Rising Sun. They meet again, find out their love might not be dead. Meanwhile, Pierre gradually becomes estranged from sweet, humble Noriko. One day, a typhoon strikes Nagasaki...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-06
Popularity:
1967-09-30
Overview: An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His new students, the children of ignorant fishermen, can see no value in education; therefore, they have no desire to learn. Natsuki then introduces the children to volleyball. The kids are immediately fired up by the game. After winning the island tourney, they go on to win the national championship. Suddenly learning has taken on a whole new dimension. Meanwhile Natsuki gets married. Unfortunately for his wife, he refuses to leave the island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-30
Popularity:
1962-01-03
Overview: 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 escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
Popularity:
1952-07-03
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-07-03
Popularity:
1952-05-01
Overview: Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-01
Popularity:
1966-10-22
Overview: Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-22
Popularity:
1957-01-03
Overview: The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them, they find it very difficult to achieve happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
Popularity:
1960-01-14
Overview: The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-14
Popularity:
1958-03-05
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-05
Popularity:
1943-06-24
Overview: A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-06-24
Popularity:
1957-04-30
Overview: Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-30
Popularity:
1962-02-04
Overview: A love melodrama.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-04
Popularity:
1963-06-23
Overview: 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 success. Saburouta is rescued by his niece, Keisuke at the last moment. Keisuke is a a good-for-nothing. Since that event, he always turns to his uncle when he needs money. Recently Keisuke feels his uncle isn't as generous as he used to be, he suspects that Saburouta has found out the illicit relation between Keisuke and his uncle's young mistress, Ohasu.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-23
Popularity:
1954-09-15
Overview: From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-15
Popularity:
1965-11-23
Overview: She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-23
Popularity:
1949-07-18
Overview: 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 investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.
Genres: Fantasy Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-18
Popularity:
1960-11-16
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-16
Popularity:
1976-12-25
Overview: When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-25
Popularity:
1933-06-01
Overview: Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an orphaned carriage driver Kinya Murakoshi, and pledges to put him through law school in Tokyo. She always encloses money in her letters to him, until one hard winter there is no work to be found.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1933-06-01
Popularity:
1957-01-15
Overview: Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
Popularity:
1969-07-12
Overview: A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-12
Popularity:
1956-06-08
Overview: Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-06-08
Popularity:
1955-01-29
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
Popularity:
1955-01-03
Overview: Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wrecks the truce by agreeing to fix a boxing match in which Maki has an interest in one of the fighters. After a terrible brawl, the two gangsters discover that they have both been played for suckers by their bosses. They join forces to turn the tables on the bosses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-03
Popularity:
1960-04-29
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
Popularity:
1964-02-16
Overview: Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-16
Popularity:
1967-03-10
Overview: An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn't have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It's bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I've seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-10
Popularity:
1967-09-15
Overview: Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
Popularity:
1948-10-02
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-02
Popularity:
1957-06-04
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-04
Popularity:
1957-09-21
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-21
Popularity:
1955-03-25
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-25
Popularity:
1924-01-02
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1924-01-02
Popularity:
1963-03-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-03-01
Popularity:
1956-05-14
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-05-14
Popularity:
1942-10-01
Overview: 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 him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point Minowada receives military call-up papers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-10-01
Popularity:
1941-11-30
Overview:
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-11-30
Popularity:
1956-08-08
Overview: While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-08
Popularity:
1959-01-03
Overview: Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
Popularity:
1959-05-27
Overview:
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-27
Popularity:
1958-03-05
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-05
Popularity:
1958-09-14
Overview: The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who watch over them. Co-written by newcomer Shigeki Chiba and Kaneto Shindo, the film was directed by Kozaburo Yoshimura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-14
Popularity:
1965-10-15
Overview: Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-15
Popularity:
1965-06-13
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-13
Popularity:
1970-02-11
Overview:
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-11
Popularity:
1960-04-05
Overview: 1960 Toei film.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-05
Popularity:
1984-11-17
Overview: A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-17
Popularity: