Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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.