Movies: Kumeko Urabe

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A film by Kiyoshi Saeki...

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

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....

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 of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works....

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan....

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 running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngs...

1945 Japanese movie...

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

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007....

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

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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 in Tokyo's Ginza nightlife district....

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 in which Maki has an interest in one of the fighters. After a terrible brawl, the two gangsters disco...

Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole to the govt. The next day, the jewel disappears. Investigator Yamazaki investigates......

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

Mamoru Hirayama, the sales manager of Clover Shoji, a women's underwear manufacturer, was selected by President Usui to be the manager of the foreign affairs section newly established in the sales department. Masaaki Sakata, Yasushi Inoda, Osamu Yama...

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