Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

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 period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

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 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.

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...

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

A Japanes widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines of WW2.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband's illness.

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.