Kumeko Urabe Movies

1954 Japanese movie

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

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...

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

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

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 bui...

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

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.

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.

A village romantic drama. (Now lost.)

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.

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.

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

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...

1962 Japanese movie

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

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 run...