Movies: Kumeko Urabe

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

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....

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?...

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....

A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is staying with a gangster boss when he comes across the woman and her partner again. The boss lusts for bo...

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

Japanese comedy film....

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....

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]....

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...

A hospital melodrama where the conflict between love and friendship rules the faith of the protagonists....

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....

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase....

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son....

Sequel to "Irresponsible Age of Japan"....

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan....

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Group of women escape Chinese controlled area for Japanese occupied lands during Pacific War....

1962 Japanese movie...

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