Chieko Higashiyama Movies

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

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...

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

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

1947 Toho film directed by Tadashi Imai

A young woman decides to leave school in order to help her sister.

1963 Japanese movie

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...

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...

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...

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait.

The Siege of Osaka

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

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 Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...