Kumeko Urabe Movies

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

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...

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...

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...

The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes.

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

1962 Japanese movie

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

1960 Toei film.

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

1959 adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel.

Hibari no komoriuta (ひばりの子守唄, literally "Hibari's Lullaby") is a 1951 black-and-white Japanese film...