Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a...

From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and...

In a remote village where food is scarce, elders who reach the age of 70 are carried by their children to the top of a nearby mountain to die in...

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...

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while...

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.

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...

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

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.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

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

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

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

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

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

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