Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

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.

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...

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 Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.

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

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

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

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

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.

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

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight....

Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life...

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

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

1962 Japanese movie