Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

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

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.

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...

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

1962 Japanese movie

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

A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a volleyball tournament as long-shot underdogs.

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...

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

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

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

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.

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...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love.

A middle-aged man's family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.

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

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...