Kumeko Urabe Movies

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...

1960 Toei film.

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

Eiichiro, a talented young salesman, grows disillusioned with office politics and returns to his family’s traditional tofu business, applying...

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...

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...

1954 Japanese movie

Directed by Minoru Murata.

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

The film depicts the life of a man who works at a crematorium he inherited from his father. An adaptation of Yoshiko Shigekane's novel Smoke of...

Third sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".