Kumeko Urabe Movies

1954 Japanese movie

A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

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...

1960 Toei film.

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love both with Japan and a charming Japanese girl named...

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a volleyball tournament as long-shot underdogs.

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

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

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...