Keisuke Kinoshita Movies

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...

The wife of an elite government official left her husband, and a young journalist is sent to investigate the case. But his boss has a hidden agenda.

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

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

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...

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

A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.

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...

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

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

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is...

A young student falls for an invalid girl, whom he can only see from afar.

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 touching story of pure love and tears between a boy and a girl, drawn by the innocent duo of Chieko Baisho and Shinichiro Mikami, based on "Nagashi...