Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

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’...

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she'd join him more frequently, but she detests his...

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

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

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 Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an...