Kumeko Urabe Movies

A story about club hostesses in Osaka.

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

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

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 film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and...

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...

Adaptation of the novel by Bunroku Shishi.

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. One day Shino came to like a thief (Yoshioka) who...

1962 Japanese movie

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

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...

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

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...

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