Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

1962 Japanese movie

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife.

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely...

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

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

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove.

This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn't even a...

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in...

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.