Chieko Higashiyama Movies

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode...

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

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

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

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

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in...

The Siege of Osaka

1963 Japanese movie

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

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

At a coastal hot spring inn, a group of women navigate work, personal struggles, and unexpected scandals. When a guest threatens to expose one maid's...

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.