Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

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 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...

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

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

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...

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...

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

August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family.

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

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

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed...

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

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

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...

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

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

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

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.