Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy...

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

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...

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war...

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

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.

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...

Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.

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.

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

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

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

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

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