Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

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...

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

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

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his...

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

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

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.

Japanese drama.

1958 Japanese movie

Born to a prestigious family, Natsuko is not impressed by any one of her suitors. Determined to spend her life serving god, she sets off to a convent...