Kurumi Yamabato

Jubilation Street (1944)

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

DIRECTION:  Keisuke Kinoshita
CAST:  Ken Uehara  •  Eijirō Tōno  •  Chiyo Shin  •  Makoto Kobori

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

DIRECTION:  Keisuke Kinoshita
CAST:  Ken Uehara  •  Eijirō Tōno  •  Chiyo Shin  •  Makoto Kobori

The Living Magoroku (1943)

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

DIRECTION:  Keisuke Kinoshita
CAST:  Ken Uehara  •  Fumiko Katsuragi  •  Mitsuko Yoshikawa  •  Yasumi Hara

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

DIRECTION:  Keisuke Kinoshita
CAST:  Ken Uehara  •  Fumiko Katsuragi  •  Mitsuko Yoshikawa  •  Yasumi Hara

Street of Ronin (1957)

Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masahiro Makino
CAST:  Jūshirō Konoe  •  Seizaburō Kawazu  •  Susumu Fujita  •  Yataro Kitagami

Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masahiro Makino
CAST:  Jūshirō Konoe  •  Seizaburō Kawazu  •  Susumu Fujita  •  Yataro Kitagami

Totsugu Hi (1956)

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kōzaburō Yoshimura
CAST:  Keiko Tsushima  •  Masami Taura  •  Kurumi Yamabato  •  Sumiko Hidaka

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with Shinsaku regaining his old vigor as a writer and Sakie, his daughter, finding a suitable match, while the family is ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kōzaburō Yoshimura
CAST:  Keiko Tsushima  •  Masami Taura  •  Kurumi Yamabato  •  Sumiko Hidaka

White Blaze (1958)

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshiaki Banshō
CAST:  Minoru Ōki  •  Hizuru Takachiho  •  Takahiro Tamura  •  Chishū Ryū

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshiaki Banshō
CAST:  Minoru Ōki  •  Hizuru Takachiho  •  Takahiro Tamura  •  Chishū Ryū