Mayumi Kurata Movies

1959 Japanese movie

Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmarried daughters and decides to split his...

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

The three Matsunami sisters navigate adulthood and the complex social pressures of finding a husband while living under their traditional...

1962 Japanese movie

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

1962 Japanese movie

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just...

Contemporary musical drama film by Yasuzo Masumura.

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

A little girl who falls into a lake and is saved by a god who then takes her up to the clouds and shows her what the world was like before she was...

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new...

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with,...

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

1960 Japanese movie