Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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 young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming...

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

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

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