Chieko Higashiyama Movies

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

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

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...

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

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....

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

1958 Japanese movie

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