Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

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

1962 Japanese movie

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

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

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

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...

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

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.

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

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

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

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

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.

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 young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....